[stylist] confusing similar words

[Alan]

You know?  That memory trick is awesome!  I have to remember that.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
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Subject: Re: [stylist] confusing similar words


>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
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>> 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>
>> To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>> 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
>>> To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [stylist] confusing similar words
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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>
>>>> 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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