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Post #400659

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xhonzi
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Words Mean Things
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3-Mar-2010, 10:39 AM

Yeah...  I could care a lot about the 'couldn't care less' thing.  Or how do I say "it bugs me"?

Another one that the dictionary seems to have betrayed me on is: insure vs ensure.  I was taught that "insure" was to take out a policy against something and "ensure" was to make sure.  Almost everywhere you look, people only use "insure" for both meanings.  The dictionaries I looked at seem to reflect this, yet I sware that it hasn't always been so.