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To: Tennessean4Bush; DCPatriot
I've seen both before.

Interesting link here:
Language Log: "Hone in on" before "home in on"?

10 posted on 01/29/2008 6:22:51 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: Constitution Day

Thanks.....


11 posted on 01/29/2008 6:24:46 AM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: Constitution Day

I sit corrected.


20 posted on 01/29/2008 6:54:26 AM PST by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: Constitution Day

More on the “hone” vs. “home”:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000378.html


28 posted on 01/29/2008 11:17:47 AM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: Constitution Day

There are homing pigeons, but no “honing” pigeons.


30 posted on 01/29/2008 11:46:28 AM PST by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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