when my spelling thing really comes back to bite

Aug 09, 2007 22:22

As mentioned earlier, I'm an atrocious speller, a fact carefully disguised in my professional life with spellcheck. (Before I changed it, I had "atrotious" and "disgused.") Tonight, I ran again into my nemesis word, a word I not only can't spell, I so thoroughly can't spell it I can't use Google, m-w.com, dictionary.com or any other source I could ( Read more... )

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rosefox August 10 2007, 05:34:05 UTC
veri simili tude == very similar to

That's how I remember it, anyway.

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gatopreto August 10 2007, 05:48:48 UTC
What do you think of that fave word of psych scholars everywhere, vicissitudes?

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kizlj August 10 2007, 06:23:22 UTC
that one I can spell! or at least get close enough to get google to help me spell!

(hi from upstairs :>)

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gatopreto August 10 2007, 06:32:41 UTC
Hee, and I thought you were asleep.

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sdn August 10 2007, 10:54:27 UTC
that's exactly what i thought.

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veek August 10 2007, 10:48:19 UTC
In vino VERItas.

VERI-similitude == similarity to truth. Which is the same as saying similarity to wine.

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ecmyers August 10 2007, 13:51:32 UTC
At Clarion West, our stuffed frog mascot was the VerisimiliToad... :P

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