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Tip #407:  Possession vs. Description.

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Comments about Tip #406: 

Graham Savage commented: 

I love the weekly newsletter - been getting it for years now. Sorry to be a pain, but spotted a mistake in one of the answers to this week's question. I guess you're going to get lots of emails about this, so I'll keep it short:

2. The official language of people who live in the Philippines is Pilipino.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_language

My comment: Thanks, Graham, for the update. I stand corrected. I used my Gregg Reference Manual, and it used the old spelling. Apparently the name has been changed from Pilipino to Filipino.

Naomi Wymer sent this great information:

Regarding #2, the official language of the Philippine Islands is Tagalog.  TAGALOG is one of the major languages spoken in the Philippines, mostly by people from the Tagalog regions in the main island of Luzon. It is the lingua franca in Metro Manila, the national capital region of the country. It also serves as a base for Filipino, one of the two official languages of the Philippines (along with English). Read this interesting essay on the metamorphosis of Filipino as national language. See

 http://www.seasite.niu.edu/TAGALOG/Tagalog_mainpage.htm

Col. Michael.Riel sent even more information: 

A Pilipino is a male from the Philippines and a Pilipina is a female from the Philippines, in Tagalog.

Annalyn.Hegemann commented: 

I wrote to one of my friends who is from the Philippines and he stated the following: "Both are correct. But the politically correct term is Filipino." 

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Since I could not put any more abbreviations or homonyms in the last tip, here are some more:

Qadeer Nazir added:

IOM: Internal Office Memo
MOM: Minutes of Meeting
EOM: End of Message
OOP: Office of President
PS.: Post Script
PO: Purchase Order

Here are additional homonyms:

Rajakumar Dharmaraj added: 

1.chaught/cot,
2.liver/lever
3.meat/meet
4.right/write

Kathy Knott sent this: 

Words that sound alike, are spelled differently, and have different meanings, e.g.,

lead - led	weather - whether
it's - its	who's - whose
cite - site	coarse - course
capital - capitol	compliment - complement
principal - principle	council - counsel
passed - past	to - two - too
ante - anti	your - you're
their - there - they're

Diane Marceau sent these: 

Feet/feat, route/root, here/hear, done/dunn/dun, seam/seem, there/their, grate/great, damn/dam, pare/pair, more/moor, hie/high, flour/flower, stile/style, reed/read, soar/sore, patients/patience.

Here are some more abbreviations:
Serafino Pisciotta added: PEBKAC= Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair. It's a new I.T. acronym. In other words, the computer user is the problem.

Please send in any writing errors you are sent or have seen in your workplace such as this:

Martha Nimmo sent this in: My son's fourth grade teacher just replied to me with "Your welcome" !!

Here are some more homonyms:

Cynthia Yinusa sent in these: duel/dwell; raise/raze; dew/due; rear/rare; fare/fear; great/grate; dear/dare

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