Steak - a cut of meat
Stake - a rigid rod to be driven into another object
Can be confused when writing a description of how to erect a tent using oriental English.
Steak - a cut of meat
Stake - a rigid rod to be driven into another object
Can be confused when writing a description of how to erect a tent using oriental English.
I was fighting with temptation but I didn't want to win.
A man like me don't like to see temptation caving in.
Leonard Cohen
Two reasons. One/ The 'umble island has been invaded so many times there was a revolving door fitted to Dover in the Middle Ages. And two/ When the aristos got a taste of Empire building they stole everything they could lay their sticky little paws on and words are easy to carry.And... now we know yet another reason why English probably has more words in it than most other languages.
Some languages also defend their borders. French people use tons of anglicisms but they're often not included in dictionaries.
Olly, that's an awesome list, thanks!
Firstly it goes back further than that, when Claudius came over he was chasing tribes like the Parisi and the Belgi who had decamped and were not to be tolerated just over the horizon, his number two, Vespurian, moved West and took on the Brits. Secondly it wasn't just the aristos, your ordinary squaddie had a habit of asking 'Waddya call that then?'.Originally Posted by bazz cargo
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One confusion that I see turn up is between:
Led - past tense of lead (to command or show the way); and
Lead - a soft, dull heavy metal used for fishing sinkers and chimney flashing, or the graphite core of a pencil.
ETA:
Less commonly:
hire - to contract for; and
higher - more elevated
heir - one who inherits; and
air - the stuff we're meant to breathe; and
ere - poetic form of before
including its homonyms, the sound/word rose is reputed to have more meanings than any other English word;
many of the meanings attach to the version - rows;
others include roes and rhos
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"I don't know ... I'm making it up as I go ..." - Dr I Jones
Nature abhors perfection - cats abhor a vacuum!
"Faith can move mountains - she's a big girl!" (unknown/graffiti)
If I act like I own the place, it's because I did.
Particularly since the present tense of "led" is "lead."
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin
"I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story." - Tom Clancy
Lead= leash
lead= metal
lead= infront
lead= access
lead= have the first place
lead= pre-eminent
lead= in charge
lead= begin a round of cards
lead= story in a newspaper
lead= wire
and I quite often swing the lead.
Firstly it goes back further than that, when Claudius came over he was chasing tribes like the Parisi and the Belgi who had decamped and were not to be tolerated just over the horizon, his number two, Vespurian, moved West and took on the Brits. Secondly it wasn't just the aristos, your ordinary squaddie had a habit of asking 'Waddya call that then?'.
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Police are following a strong lead, they have a big dog on the other end.
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The one that I remember seeing a few times is....I led on the bed/she led on the bed.
C'est la vie.
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