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Today's peevelesson:


  • tenet: principle
  • tenant: renter
  • Tennant: ex-Doctor



Oh, and a principal is generally a person, while a principle is an ideal. Slightly different.

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Date: 2010-05-02 09:54 am (UTC)
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Also:

Imminent: something's going to happen soon.

Immanent: God is going to happen soon.

(Am mildly peeved as a couple of weeks ago I had to inflict this distinction upon a copy-editor who proposed to delete one of the more recondite puns from "Fuller Memorandum" because she wasn't familiar with the latter word.)
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