[Fantasywriter]

Try this. Go to your favorite search engine and type in, ‘eminently practical’. Mine gave me no direct hits, just one word or the other.

Then type in ‘immanently practical’. I got more hits for that exact quote than I could count. Now you may not find that dispositive but I do. Usage determines the meaning of words. ‘Eminent’ isn’t used the way Ayers used it; ‘immanent’ is.

[HIDEK6]

You learn something new every day.

I'd never heard of "immanent." I was thinking of "imminent," even though I misspelled it in my reply.

[xjcsa]

I get almost precisely the opposite results. In fact, a search for “immanently practical” instead showed results for “eminently practical,” assuming that was what I must have meant.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Try this. Go to your favorite search engine and type in, ‘eminently practical’. Mine gave me no direct hits, just one word or the other."

Hmmm...I just went to google and typed in "eminently practical" (in quotes and got about 644,000 direct hits..

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22eminently+practical%22&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7TSHB