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NoCoPilot
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| | Subject: Words words words Sat Feb 17, 2018 8:25 am | |
| Unexplainable = inexplicable? |
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NoCoPilot
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| | Subject: Re: Words words words Fri Feb 23, 2018 12:23 pm | |
| board stiff ≠ bored stiff |
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NoCoPilot
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| | Subject: Re: Words words words Fri Feb 23, 2018 4:37 pm | |
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NoCoPilot
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| | Subject: Re: Words words words Fri Mar 02, 2018 2:57 pm | |
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NoCoPilot
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| | Subject: Re: Words words words Wed Jun 13, 2018 6:33 am | |
| There are two meanings of the word "commend." One means to heap praise on someone, the other means to give something or someone over to the care of another.
These two meanings are so unrelated as to be almost opposites.
The daycare provider told the young mother, "I commend your children...." |
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_Howard
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| | Subject: Re: Words words words Wed Jun 13, 2018 1:00 pm | |
| further or farther?
furthest or farthest?
Even dictionaries don't all agree of the proper usage of these.
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NoCoPilot
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| | Subject: Re: Words words words Fri Sep 28, 2018 1:53 pm | |
| Why are we WIDE AWAKE but SOUND ASLEEP?
Why not wide asleep or sound awake? |
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NoCoPilot
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| | Subject: Re: Words words words Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:06 am | |
| A "comfit" is a confection consisting of a nut, seed or fruit coated with sugar.
So is "discomfiting" taking one away? |
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NoCoPilot
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| | Subject: Re: Words words words Mon Nov 12, 2018 1:08 pm | |
| - _Howard wrote:
- further or farther?
furthest or farthest?
Even dictionaries don't all agree of the proper usage of these.
Backward and backwards -- I always get these confused. Backward is an adjective and backwards is a adverb, but also backwards is chiefly British and Americans use backward for either. |
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richard09
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| | Subject: Re: Words words words Mon Nov 12, 2018 4:49 pm | |
| Americans always have been a bit backward. |
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_Howard
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| | Subject: Re: Words words words Mon Nov 12, 2018 4:55 pm | |
| Yes, and we are backwarding quickly now.
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