Words words words

I am the difference between "deify" and "defy."

IEDs and IUDs are not interchangeable.

No-one talks about the elephant in the room when they're at the zoo.

If something is made of metal it is said to be metallic.

That's not true though of iron... which is kinda ironic.

There's a difference between "antics" and "antiques" but you can't really hear it.

The American downhill skier named Picabo Street opened an intensive care unit for injured skiers. It's called the Picabo ICU.

You park your airplane in an airplane hangar. You park your boat in a boat hangar. Why do you park your car in a garage?

Why isn't "choir" spelled with a "qu"?

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The local rules for the Florida court where the case was filed require that Trump have counsel barred in the state.

I THINK the author meant to say that Trump’s attorneys have to have passed the bar in Florida... not that they have been barred from practicing.

Did you see the baseball game last night? The pitcher was throwing baseballs the size of hail!

Mrs NoCo: Where are you, sweetie? I need something.

Me: What do they call you when you're from Europe?

If a person can be sqeamish, what's a "squeam"?

Meringue and merengue are not interchangeable.

If a person is particularly sharply dressed, can you say they look "heveled"?

"More trouble than it's worth" or "more trouble than its worth"?

Seems like you could make an argument for either punctuation. Odd, that.

Did you hear about the guy who operated a paper goods business out of his van?

It was a non-stationary stationery store.

With her divorce settlement, Madge started a towing company with her ex-husband's old truck.

She called it "Home Wrecker."

What do you call a baker who grows his own grain, grinds his own flour, raises his own yeast and stokes his ovens with hand-hewn wood?

In-bred.

The word "cast" has many different meanings.

Contronyms -- words that are their own opposite

• cleave
  
• dust
  
• shelled
  
• sanction
  
• fast
  
• awful
  
• peruse
  
• table
  
• irregardless
  
• screen
  
• apology
  
• inflammable
  
• oversight
  
• overlooked
  
• trim
  
• off
  
• pitch
  
• Earthbound
  
• endorse
  
• citation
  
• pitted
  
• who's left
  
• inhabitable
  
• deceptively
  
• mind

Teacher: You can sometimes use two negatives in a row to indicate a positive, but there's no instance of using two positives to indicate a negative.

Student: Yeah, right!