Gaaah ( Read more... )

BREACH. Once more into the breach. Breach of etiquette. Rift, gap in a wall ( Read more... )

via holyoutlawretelling someone's self-description: "intellectually curios" and another said they had "many faucets ( Read more... )

Note to all the Japanese learners ( Read more... )

Tenets. Tenets are foundational principles. Tenants are people who occupy rented spaces.

While we're at it, principles are those important core ideas. Principals are either heads of schools, or the main players in some issue or business.

Who's the "pham" in euphamism, anyway? It's euphEmism, please. Especially if you're going to snark about

I've had an ongoing 'tsk' for the misuse of "naval". Because really, Bestselling Author[s] & Editorial Team[s][1], $character did not have a maritime adjective in the middle of $character's torso. Nav*e*l.

And they're also *navel* oranges. Because they look like they have a bellybutton. Despite easy comparison to the British Navy's Royal Navy's ( ( Read more... )

Dire Straits, people.

Dire Straights are those people who are all about DOMA.

Costumize ( Read more... )

I'm about to give up on loose/lose, but can we please not transition to cord/chord, please ( Read more... )

steak fritésIt wasn't an article I was editing, but I read this and stopped in my tracks. If it hadn't been in an online forum, I would have wanted to take out my markup pen o' doom and nixed that unnecessary accent-aigu. The way it's written, it would be pronounced "steak free-tays", not "steak freets", the way it's supposed to be. Sheesh ( Read more... )