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Whoa. It's spelled whoa.

When you take a breath, you breathe.

When you smooth cream on a burn, you soothe it.

When someone gives a present to him(and me), or (him and)me, we say thank you.

When he(and I) or (he and)I want to go somewhere, we book tickets.

When he lays me down on the bed, I may have laid here since yesterday, and I will lie here till I'm ready to rise.

He may be prostrate with pain, if his prostate is injured.

Not everybody fists something, just because it's a new, popular, and rapidly becoming cliche'd way to use a noun.

More as I think of them. Thank you for your attention.

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I've got one for you - onboarded.

PS thanks for this. Especially the prostrate/prostate one. I'm a geek, I know, but this kind of stuff makes me MAD. (I'm finally getting to the point where I can ignore bad spelling from people on my f-list, but I've managed to hurt a couple people by pointing theirs out in what I thought was a friendly manner.)

I saw a cute icon yesterday that had some similar words. I'll see if I can find it again. The prostrate prostate makes me laugh.

My biggest woe (not whoa) is the almost entirely lost distinction between if and whether. Ah, well. It does take longer to write whether if one is in a hurry, though I don't know whether that's the reason for it.

Um. People use fist as a verb to mean...? I know the one way I've heard it used, but I doubt that's common talk on a daily basis.

Oh, Oh! You can add definitely, too.

'Course, I know I probably ping someone's pet peeve with something every day. Still.

Yay! Sing it!

If you write an essay on a hedgehog it could be quite painful; an essay about a hedgehog might be interesting.

It's all about whether it needs its apostrophe.

You must be clear when you are discussing nuclear warheads.

Oh jeez. Don't get the cranky editor lady (that would be ME, to be clear) started on things like this.

I'm torn on the issue of verb-ing nouns. Sometimes its extremely useful, because it allows for more casual construction, and/or it makes it easier to describe situations/things/etc. that never previously existed.

On the other hand, I despise verb-ifying nouns just for the sake of it. An example: at work, we do all typesetting/layout/design in Quark XPress. There are several design software packages that exist, and some companies, for whatever reason, use more than onw. However, my company only uses one design software package, so if my boss were to tell me, "Please typeset chapter 12," I would know that she meant I should use Quark XPress in order to typeset said chapter.

My boss, however, thinks that its cute to tell me, "Please Quark chapter 12." THERE IS NO VERB THERE!!!! The verb, goddamnit, is "typeset."

(By the way, I totally get that my position is inconsistent. What can I say? I am vast [and cranky]; I contain multitudes.)

I've seen "fisted" as verb/adverb for years, generally to describe roughly grabbing someone's clothes so they're bunched up in the hand. It definitely predates my knowledge of the sex act.

Oh, man. Don't get me started. The "him and me/him and I" thing just sets my teeth on edge. I see even educated people doing it, and I want to stuff a red pen up their nose.

I can't understand why no one seems able to spell whoa. It isn't just a random sound; it really is a word.

And if you are prone, you are lying face DOWN.

If you are lying face up, then you are SUPINE.

That one always gets me, but I studied anatomy so the inaccuracy particularly grates because I know they are saying the exact OPPOSITE of what they mean.

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