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Don’t cast aspirations on her femininity – Cast aspersions, instead.
It continues to reside in the attack. – I had to go up to the attic, to research this.
He spoke a sort of pigeon Galician – This pigeon thinks it should read pidgin.
So, needlessly to say – It was needless to use an adverb instead of an adjective.
He built the viaduct that brought the water – Then it would be an aqueduct.
Mary had a little lamb. Her cheeks were white as snow – And the lamb’s fleece was white as snow.
The horseflies left whelps with their bites – The young whelps had welts on them.
The squad debauched from the fort – This debauched author meant debouched.
The pilot waggled the plane’s wings for an instance – an instance where it should read, instant.
The company was marketing Santinism. – They weren’t marketing the correct spelling of Satanism.
Phone gets stuck in base guitar – It’s fishy that there’s no bass.
Businessman revels how he got rich – If I were rich, I’d revel, but I wouldn’t reveal how I did it.
He sniffed his depreciation of the idea. – I’d appreciate him using deprecation
The family fortune was dilapidated – and my patience with this usage was depleted.
Amateurs
The idea has gained some exposer recently – Police arrested the exposer for indecent exposure.
Believe it or not – I found a Belief It Or Not Christian video – not wrong…. just wrong!
They were forced to be reckoned with. – I was forced to write, “A force to be reckoned with.”
An elderly none came in – but the nun would have none of that spelling.
She was dancing in the isle – I’ll tell you that it should be aisle.
Vacuums don’t cause autism – Neither do vaccines.
I pulled up the parking brake leaver – Well, leave ‘er parked, and look up lever.
Darwin advocated ‘Survival of the Fitness’ – The fittest of us know that’s not true.
It could justify killing or torchering – That spelling is torturing me.
One only has to take a looksy – to know that it should be a look-see.
I was going to lambest him for saying that – I’s like to lambaste you for using lambest.
I’m into essential oils and incest. – Does your daughter know about this?
‘The Office’ is a meaty okra show. – About as mediocre as that spelling.
She said she got a Bachelorette Degree – Blondie meant a baccalaureate!!
I have only lent in my pocket – because you gave up your dictionary for lent.
A term that attempts to draft on an air of coolness – I drank some cool draft while I looked up graft.
This woman had the gull to insult him – A little bird told me she had gall.
He’s got the saddle soars to prove it – Lets waft on over to where they are sores.
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Now that I’ve had something to say about some things that other people say, it’s back to business as usual. What??! Ranting IS my usual? I dare you to read this post and say that. 😉
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