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PS: Is there any expression "in his altogether" meaning he's nude? Or have I gotten something mixed up?
My M-W lists nudity as a definition of altogether.
The phrase, ackchally, is "in the altogether. Makes no difference if it's his or hers.
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gourmet / gourmand
 I have to admit to botching that one up! Ooops! Although sometimes I *am* a gourmand gourmet! [burp-e] 
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a gourmande gourmet more like Madame Hev
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Scotch is a drink. A person from Scotland is a Scot.
Jus gis us a cubla more hours and I'll, hic, gis ya the Scotch view.
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or you could say someone is wearing their birthday suit
funny how these expressions didn't come up when we discussed the differences between naked and nude.. or in the euphamism thread.. quess we don't want to think about it!
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The difference between r*** and romance is just a question of salesmanship.
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Cross-threading to lyrics... in the film Hans Christian Andersen (I [heart] Danny Kaye!), the lyrics to The Emperor's New Clothes play on that very theme:
First, when everyone is going along with the emperor:
The King's new clothes are altogether, but altogether, they're altogether,
The most remarkable suit of clothes that I have ever seen!
Then later, after he's been (ahem) exposed:
The King is in the altogether, but altogether, the altogether,
The King he is as naked as the day that he was born
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It's altogether the very least the King has ever worn!
And back to the topic:
Another one I thought of... sanitorium vs. sanitarium
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...but all too often are:
wreak/wreck
moot/mute
mitigate/militate
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Dear Fiberbabe: I used to work in a TB san.
"Sanitorium" comes from the Latin word "sanare", which means to cure or heal. It took on its special meaning as a place for the treatment of invalids, particularly consumptives, in the late 1800s.
"Sanitarium" comes from the Latin word "sanitas", which means health. Its most common meaning is "health resort." Because of its close etymologic link with the word for "sanity", sanitarium is most easily remembered as the designation for institutions designed to treat mental disorders.
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bel writes:
Two words that seem to confuse people in French are:
Podiatre and Pediatre
(podiatrist and pediatrician)
We had a case in the UK a short while ago where someone was viciously attacked by self-appointed vigilantes (don't recall if it was fatal - could have been) who thought that a paediatrician was a paedophile.
dxb
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