[stylist] confusing similar words

[Barbara Hammel]

I have to laugh.  I just saw an e-mail talking about a potluck and the 
author said to bring a desert.  I wanted to write back and ask which one. 
Which is bigger any how?  It would feed more people sand pies and cactus 
crunch.
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 3:12 PM
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [stylist] confusing similar words

> 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
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>> 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.
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
>> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 10:29 AM
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>> Subject: Re: [stylist] confusing similar words
>>
>>> 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>
>>> To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>>> 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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