To: piasa
How about “defuze” the situation instead “diffuse” the situation..
Quality editors are hard to find anymore,
5 posted on
08/22/2019 4:16:58 AM PDT by
Chainmail
(Remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
To: Chainmail
...diffuse vs defuze...
Good catch.
9 posted on
08/22/2019 4:32:24 AM PDT by
moovova
To: Chainmail
10 posted on
08/22/2019 4:32:39 AM PDT by
Celtic Conservative
(My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
To: Chainmail
Right. You want to defuse the bomb. You really don’t want the bomb to diffuse.
11 posted on
08/22/2019 4:34:59 AM PDT by
real saxophonist
(Politicians and diapers need to be changed for the same reason.)
To: Chainmail; All
How about “defuze” the situation instead “diffuse” the situation..
Sorry, although defuse can be used as a verb and synonym, 'defuse' is the more commonly, correct usage in this situation.
13 posted on
08/22/2019 4:39:24 AM PDT by
notdownwidems
(Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
To: Chainmail
These days, it’s the blind leading the blind.
20 posted on
08/22/2019 5:04:27 AM PDT by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Chainmail
How about “defuze” Quality editors are hard to find anymore,
You're right. But keep looking, you might find one.....LOL!
22 posted on
08/22/2019 5:14:54 AM PDT by
Hot Tabasco
(I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
To: Chainmail
Actually defuze appears to be the Arabic spelling of defuse. You are correct though that it should not be diffuse.
defuze. Verb. (third-person singular simple present defuzes, present participle defuzing, simple past and past participle defuzed) Archaic spelling of defuse.
To: Chainmail
Some people don’t know the difference between a fuze, a fuse, and a fusee ...
27 posted on
08/22/2019 6:39:09 AM PDT by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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