Re: Marvel at my stupidity

["Rogers, Kelli, Ms, SAM-GATQ" <IMCEAMS-COMMNET_COMMPO15_rogersk -at- PENTAGON -dot- AF -dot- MIL>]

How many times have you heard "duck tape," versus the correct term "duct
tape?"

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> From:         Calderhan Y. Squeeb[SMTP:cysqueeb -at- HOTMAIL -dot- COM]
> Reply To:     Calderhan Y. Squeeb
> Sent:         Wednesday, August 25, 1999 7:33 AM
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> Subject:      Re: Marvel at my stupidity
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> 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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