[stylist] confusing similar words

Angela fowler fowlers at syix.com
Sun Aug 30 01:42:27 UTC 2009


Lol, Dave, I do that with "lose" and "loose" all the time. Do I lose my
mind, or have a screw loose, or what? Lol. 
I guess you lose an O, hmmm, that works. 

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of David Andrews
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 6:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] confusing similar words

Actually I think you mean "lots to choose from, (smile.")

Dave

At 05:17 PM 8/28/2009, you wrote:
>Lots to chose from:
>t h e r e   and t h e i r and t h e y ' r e
>t o and t o o and t w o
>s i g h t and s i t e and c i t e
>Simple words, and therefore most likely to get confused.   Or so I've
>noticed.
>Lori
>In a message dated 8/28/09 10:27:13 AM, fowlers at syix.com writes:
>
>
> > 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.
> >
> >
>
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