On Oct 22, 2005, at 12:04 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:

Other substitutions I see all the time are "affect" and "effect", as in "he effected a change that affected everyone," and "wet" for "whet", as in "we can whet our appetites with a bite of cheese, and then we can wet our fingers in the fingerbowls."

When I read about bites of cheese in a discussion of homophones, it brings to mind the cat who waited by the mouse hole with baited breath.

mdl

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