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Thread #172238   Message #4169477
Posted By: leeneia
08-Apr-23 - 10:04 AM
Thread Name: BS: words that are hard to spell
Subject: RE: BS: words that are hard to spell
I was looking at a video about Donald Trump's arraignment, and the judge told him that any more dumb and dangerous stunts from him, (I paraphrase) and the trial would be conducted in his "absense." The transcript was on the screen, that's how I saw it.

I looked at "absense" and thought, "That looks fuuny." But actually, the spoken word can be taken two ways.

absence = not being present
absense = not having sense, similar to abnormal.

I like it.