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Assume v. Presume

Take a look at Google Streetview for 32 Chepstow Road, Newport. Sign outside the Artful Dodger pub reads:

FUNCTION ROOM FOR HIRE
WITH BAR & DANCE/DISCO AREA
AVAILABLE FOR ALL OCCASIONS
INCLUDING BIRTHDAY PARTY'S
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Birthday party's what?
 
gomezz said:
What if the temperature is
latex.php
? There are are least two different ways of evaluating
latex.php
to get different answers depending on how you sneak up on it.
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Is absolute zero ever attained? Isn't it the speed of light of thermodynamics? (Leaving aside the difficulties involved in actually measuring a zero temperature.)
 
The Times disgraced itself yet again by talking about waitful watching instead of watchful waiting as regards prostate cancer.

However, a quich Google search shows that this term is a commoner mistake than I thought, if you can believe the internet reports, eg, regarding Ian McKellen.

So, has waitful entered the vocabulary?
 
Somebody on the radio today didn't seem to understand the difference between "interned" and "interred".
 
Or a lot and allot, mis-spelt as alot.

Wasn't Monica Lewinsky interred?
 
Someone reported the other day that 1 in 10 babies in Britain is Muslim.

My recollection of babies is that at birth babies tend to eat, sleep and scream a lot. Much later, they start to talk. Much, much later, they start to reason and question things. So, how can they be religiously committed at birth?
 
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