# Words that are not the same but get interchanged

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-not-the-same-but-get-interchanged/787944/79 "2017-06-04T23:03:34Z")

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[del]Scene[/del] Seen in a nearby thread (“Terraforming…”) in this forum just today:

> [@Terraforming Another Planet - Possible? When?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terraforming-another-planet-possible-when/788117/1):
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> 1. All the Earth’s resources are brought to bare (money, technology, natural resources, knowledge)

I think that means all the Earth’s resources (“brought to bare”) have been strip-mined?

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