Usage Annoyances
“take another tact” — it’s tack, from sailing ships “baited breath” — nope, it’s bated, meaning roughly “held back” “must of” — it’s “must have“. And a huge collection of related phonetic spellings of...
View ArticleThe Society for the Restoration of Lost Positives
There is clearly not enough information about this important group on the web, so I will do my duty as a content provider. The organization predates my birth, but they do not seem to be getting the...
View ArticleLost Positive
lighted! This one was brought to my attention via a strange sequence involving a misspelling of a proprietary feature name in Nikon DSLRs.
View ArticleIs Your Question Loaded?
The four rules of question safety: ALL questions are ALWAYS loaded Never let your question cover anything you are not willing to learn about Keep your finger off the “Enter” key until your question is...
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I’m Amused
It seems that Google is using (and owns) 1e100.net They’ve owned it since 2009, so this isn’t news really. (It’s really spelled “googol”).
View ArticleSpatchcocked! (What a weird word)
Instructional videos are such a mixed bag. Setting aside the people who don’t know as much as they think they do, and the people who can’t write their way out of a wet paper bag (because those are...
View ArticleA Few Confusing Photo Terms
Photography has been around for quite a while at this point, since perhaps 1835 (images had been recorded photo-chemically before that). Recently, we’ve undergone major upheavals as the commonly-used...
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