Smilin' Strange (diello) wrote in linguaphiles,
Smilin' Strange
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Quick Lessons

Here's a few things that have been bugging me while I read my LiveJournal:

It's...
intents and purposes, not intensive purposes.
specific, not pacific. Pacific is an ocean.
taken for granted, not for granite, or grant it.
kit and caboodle, not kitten caboodle.
just deserts, not just desserts.
et cetera, not ex cetera (as many of us have already agreed upon earlier in this community)


General peeves:
Rouge makes your cheeks red. A rogue will make your cheeks red without makeup.
Flammable and Inflammable mean the same thing!
(and then there's the ones that slip my mind until I see them)


Does anybody have more to add?
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  • Interpretation of the Legend

    (inscriptions on the Kushan Kingdom coins / надписи на монетах Кушанского царства)

  • Spanish query

    I would be most grateful if anyone could help me out with a Spanish idiom, an expression appearing in a discussion of torture from the late 18th…

  • A very strange Etruscan inscription

    Chiusi is a small town in Italy (province of Siena, Tuscany). And once it was one of the most powerful centers of the Etruscan League of 12 cities.…