Bad Language

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Irrev-Black wrote: Sat Feb 17, 2024 12:58 pm The good old their/there/they're stumbling-block is pretty good, but what about palate/palette/pallet/pellet?

It's arguably a four-way spelling trap, and I don't know of any others at that level.

(I am quite content to see any I've overlooked.)
There's a nice little list here, including;

cents, cense, scents, sense, cense;

https://jbonneau.com/quad_homonyms.html

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A lovely word for use in conversation: arseropes!
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The English have 546 words for drunkenness.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/f ... runkenness
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Recursions! Foiled again!

It's holes all the way down.
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I enjoyed this sentence from over in the Dash Cam thread, in the same way I enjoy some horror movies. It's the news copy equivalent of John Carpenter's "The Thing".
Another pedestrian quickly rushes across the intersection to help the woman before a motorbike rider parks his car at the red light and runs over to offer assistance.
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-ac ... d4972d5683
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Despite the current trend in media reports for "sting" to be used anywhere law enforcement does something with any impact on an identifiable group, I maintain that a sting must involve a degree of deception or impersonation.

That time one US police department opened a fake pawnbroker shop, and thus made a number of arrests when stolen goods were brought in? Now, that is a sting.
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Dead horses mysteriously found;
The dead bodies of over 500 horses were mysteriously found at a NSW residential property earlier today.
I looked for the mystery behind the finding and it wasn't cleared up, was it the Mystery Machine that found them? People have been illegally slaughtering horses, so where's the mystery?

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Street offences?
Police hope high-visibility patrols in the region will kerb conflict after the knife-wielding teenager allegedly struck Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, 53, who was delivering a sermon on Monday night.
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/202 ... ot-charges
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