Re: Marvel at my stupidity

[ahowell -at- POOLMAIL -dot- DOLPHINSOFTWARE -dot- COM]

I had a friend who when he wanted to stop something before it got out of
hand
would always try to "nip it in the butt."

I plan to add it to my list of misheard/misinterpreted words and phrases
that
make a kind of sense anyway. "For all intensive
purposes" is another one I've seen recently. I see "mute point" every once
in a
while. "Low and behold" mostly just bugs me.

The worst part about these, from the perspective of a writer/editor, is that
most of them pass the spell checker--and many of them
make it past pretty decent editing, because they're so *almost* right.

Julie Comstock-Fisher           Documentation Manager
julief -at- pdainc -dot- com                           PDA, Inc.
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