[Boatanchors] [Milsurplus] Should i really go ahead and buy this? Will it...

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Thu Jun 24 12:09:51 EDT 2010


Well, maybe so.  But I wouldn't personally risk any money on that bet!  :-) 
There are frequent cases here where homonyms are misused.  And "vice/vise" 
is definitely one of them, although not the most frequent..

In a message dated 6/24/2010 10:58:10 AM Central Daylight Time, 
ianmwilson73 at gmail.com writes: 
> This is just one of several indicators that the author of this generally
> well-written prose (skipping lightly over the subject matter for the
> moment) is English (or possibly Canadian) rather than American.
> 
> "Vice" is English spelinge. Now "Inlcuding" just means that they didn't
> use a spellchecker - perhaps, like blind A/B comparisons, spelling
> checkers are frowned upon in audio circles...
> 
> 73, ian K3IMW
> 
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Rich Post <postr at ohiou.edu> wrote:
> 
> >Note that it
> >
> >" has a grip like a vice"
> 

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