[stylist] confusing similar words

[Pat Harmon]

I believe that is why words can play that role in a sentence.
 It does remind me that it is wise Not to use a word if you are uncertain 
about it.  (Lay and lie; ensure or insure are confusing.)It is smart to know 
what I do not know!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
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Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 10:39 AM
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>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>
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>> 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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