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Re: Marvel at my stupidity

Subject: Re: Marvel at my stupidity
From: "Calderhan Y. Squeeb" <cysqueeb -at- HOTMAIL -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 06:33:38 CDT

Another one:

"He took a different tact" for
"He took a different tack"

"She was the soul benefactor"
"She was the sole benefactor"

I think older editions of Fowler's have a section called "pairs and snares"
that lists a bunch of them --- fateful and fatal, discreet and discrete

I think "vicious circle" and "virtuous circle" are actually correct (from
Dante), and that "cycle" is just a rephrasing without losing the meaning.

Julie,

You might want to add Andrew's "back to the salt lick" (instead of "back to
the salt mine") to your list. (From his message that started this all).

Another good one is "a vicious circle" instead of "a vicious cycle".

> ....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" ...<

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