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Ren:
<rant>
I am so sick of seeing "waiting with BAITed breath". What, are you putting worms in your mouth and waiting for fish?
NO! It's "waiting with BATED breath" as in "Abated" or to Hold a Breath...
...sigh...sad how much the english language has declined...8P
</rant>

Apologies to anyone whose been getting it wrong all along, but now you can get it right!

Kali:
I have much the same reaction to people asserting that they could care less about something. 

Or people who "could of" done things.  It's COULD HAVE, you intellectually bankrupt couchmonkey.  Just because you pronounce "could've" 'could of' does NOT mean you get to spell it that way.

I fret that I am not legally permitted to shoot these people.  Fret, I say!

snowbank:
reign is what monarchs do

rein is steering a horse

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
I am really unfeasibly annoyed about "despatch" and "dispatch" both being usable to mean both a) to send a message and b) to kill someone rather than one meaning one and the other the other, as any sensible language would sort out.

Shecky:

--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on September 03, 2010, 03:16:53 AM ---I am really unfeasibly annoyed about "despatch" and "dispatch" both being usable to mean both a) to send a message and b) to kill someone rather than one meaning one and the other the other, as any sensible language would sort out.

--- End quote ---

Archaisms. That's the problem. The term and its spellings have shifted over time, and we haven't been left with a clear winner.

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