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muckefuck ([personal profile] muckefuck) wrote2010-02-09 07:40 am

SSC: pairs of confusion

Here are some words I often confuse for no reason:
cartoon, commercial
forbidding, foreboding
gambit, gamut

hornblende

[identity profile] ursine1.livejournal.com 2010-02-10 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
Hornblende are those black specks you see in granite (and other igneous rocks). If you look closely, you can see that they are often columnar in shape.

Chuck, your geology lesson for today.