[stylist] confusing similar words

[Judith Bron]

What's the difference between desert and dessert?  My fifth grade teacher 
said, "What do you want more of?  A desert or dessert?  Obviously dessert. 
Two s's.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
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Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] confusing similar words


> Sometimes the whole thing is learning a little memory trick that will 
> help. I'm not sure I'd have thought of my trick if I'd been the one 
> puzzling and I'd have had to look the word up again next time I wanted to 
> use it.
> I think I did hear somewhere, once, that c o m p l I m e n t you can 
> remember because you're being praised and I is in the word.  (It was 
> something like that.)  Maybe it was I am praising you.
> 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: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 10:29 AM
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>> Angela, I went to Dictionary.com to look up the following.  I strongly 
>> suggest that others use this on line dictionary when they have this kind 
>> of problem.  Here is the definition for Compliment.
>> 1.
>> an expression of praise, commendation, or admiration: A sincere 
>> compliment boosts one's morale.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
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>> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 10:26 AM
>> 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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