# Words that are not the same but get interchanged **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 2, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944 "2017-06-02T17:05:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944/21 "2017-06-02T21:22:33Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > If you read the local . . . “My uncle needs to sale his fishing waiters. They are great waiters, no leaks” That could be drawn up as a cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944/22 "2017-06-02T21:25:01Z")
From _Seinfeld_: statue, statute. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944/23 "2017-06-02T21:25:50Z")
I see all the time at Goodwill and garage sales “chester drawers.” ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944/24 "2017-06-02T21:41:08Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I see all the time at Goodwill and garage sales “chester drawers.” Rod iron. Sent from my XT1635-02 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Moris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moris/32/2846_2.png) [@Moris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moris)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944/25 "2017-06-02T21:42:21Z")
This ambient piece of music is very glacial, nocturnal, and corpuscular. Crepuscular. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944/26 "2017-06-02T22:04:16Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Led/lead > Gantlet/gauntlet A gantlet is a gauntlet. That was the word’s original spelling. A gauntlet also has another meaning of a type of glove. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944/27 "2017-06-02T22:10:27Z")
Bemused/amused perhaps? In a similar manner, disinterested/uninterested? ---
**Author:** ![oliversarmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@oliversarmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oliversarmy)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944/28 "2017-06-02T22:12:08Z")
Jibe/jive. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944/29 "2017-06-02T22:12:48Z")
Confusion between phase and faze is something I see all the time. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944/30 "2017-06-02T23:31:53Z")
Site and Cite Usually they get web site correct. I groan when someone sites a source. ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944/31 "2017-06-03T00:09:42Z")
Viscous/Vicious ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944/32 "2017-06-03T00:11:52Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > I think they mean he’s on autopilot and making shots without thinking. This does not explain the unconscious part. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944/33 "2017-06-03T00:51:55Z")
A few I have encountered in the wild: raze/raise quagmire/quay “run the gauntlet”/“run the gamut” venial/venal envelope/envelop all ready/already altogether/all together you’re/your its/it’s they’re/there/their tortuous/torturous/tortious reek/wreak/wreck/wrack/rack tack/track weather/whether/wether (as in bellwether) away/aweigh ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944/34 "2017-06-03T00:57:32Z")
Discrete/discreet. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944/35 "2017-06-03T01:08:11Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > A brake is something you use to stop a moving vehicle. If you are braking, you are slowing down. > > A break is an interruption of some kind (a break from work, a break in a structure). If you are breaking, you are falling apart. My favorite (from a spell on a radar detector board) was “wreckless” when they mean “reckless” (as in driving). Made even more hilarious by the fact that the former means almost exactly the opposite of the latter. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944/36 "2017-06-03T01:18:35Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > This does not explain the unconscious part. \*\*Originally Posted by Channing Idaho Banks View Post Conscious and conscience. Particularly basketball announcers who claim that a hot shooter is unconscious when that clearly is not possible. He is stabbing the dagger in your heart and twisting it over and over, so clearly he has no conscience. \*\* I’m confused. How does it not apply? How does the word “conscience” come into it anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944/37 "2017-06-03T01:21:18Z")
Climatic and climactic. Sent from my XT1635-02 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944/38 "2017-06-03T01:24:17Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Climatic and climactic. > > Sent from my XT1635-02 using Tapatalk I think we’re going to need to coin “anti-climatic” as of this week. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944/39 "2017-06-03T01:25:55Z")
Gross and grotesque. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944/40 "2017-06-03T01:29:02Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > A few I have encountered in the wild: > venial/venal That one is tough, since many venal acts are also venial. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944.md?page=3)