[stylist] confusing similar words

[Barbara Hammel]

c o m p l e m e n t is the balancer because it completes it.
Barbara

If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.

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From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 9:26 AM
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [stylist] confusing similar words

> Complement and Compliment.
> One means to praise, to speak well of. The other means to reinforce, or to
> make up for one's deficiencies, or balance one out. Which is which?
>    There's another pair of words that's been bugging me lately, but right
> now I can't think of it.
>
> Thank you
>
> Angela Fowler
>
> fowlers at syix.com
>
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