Time for "that post" again

[barbarienne]

These posts always happen when I see the same error committed three times in short order by different people.

Imminent means any minute now. Eminent means very important.

A vice is a bad habit. A vise is a tool for gripping things. (The Brits may feel differently about this. The OED has recently revamped their website so that I can't find any

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[lizziebelle]

...unless it's a phase you're going through. ;)

[barbarienne]

You can go through a phase, but you can't be "phased."

And that word has officially ceased to mean anything to my brain because I've typed it too often. :-)

[lizziebelle]

Gotcha. :)

[barbarienne]

Oh, also products can be "phased out." It is acceptable to describe a person as "phased out" when they are slowly removed from importance.

And I'll even give it to the colloquialism "I just phased out for a minute there," where really they mean "spaced out" but committed a malapropism that actually has a slightly different and interesting connotation.

[barbarienne]

I was thinking of you when I included that side-note!

[chaosvizier]

A Star Trek phaser will faze someone, but that phase will pass. One Fay Wray will faze an ape; imagine what a dozen Fays can faze.

Eminemt means very important musical personality.

Advice is Latin for "let's go sinning". Advise is Latin for "I'm crushing your head".

I poached a brooch and broached a pooch. The latter was very messy.

Horde: Bunch of folks
Hoard: Bucnh of gold
Whored: Mmmm, prostitution
"I whoarede." = "I paid a bunch of money to have sex with a large number of women made out of gold."

[barbarienne]

If your horrible punning didn't make me laugh so hard, I would have to kick you in the head.

[shogunhb]

*applause*

[ospreys_view]

And just for fun...a cord is also a quantity of wood- usually an 8'x4'x4' stack of wood.

[barbarienne]

I suddenly want to see a "cored of wood," where it consists only of heartwood...