Grammar, you can haz it.
May. 1st, 2010 11:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Today's peeve lesson:
Oh, and a principal is generally a person, while a principle is an ideal. Slightly different.
- 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)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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Date: 2010-05-02 12:47 pm (UTC)What is the world coming to?