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* "hollowed" (having its interior removed) vs. "hallowed" (holy, revered, honored). Oh, and [[Harry Potter|"Deathly Hollows"]] are holes that will kill you. Likewise, the reverse also applies -- it's not [[Harry Potter|"Godric's Hallow"]] unless the entire town has been consecrated.
* "hologram" for any type of stereogram. A hologram is specifically the kind of stereogram which records and replays the wavefront emitted by the object; other types of stereogram, which use two (or sometimes more) separate (2D) images to create the 3D effect, are most decidedly '''not''' holograms. The most recent (as of November 2010) example is the 3-disc Special Collectors' Edition of [[Avatar (film)|Avatar]] sold at Tesco (UK) stores, which includes a pack of four so-called "hologram" art cards which are actually parallax stereograms.
* And while we're on the subject; "holograph" for "hologram". A holograph is a document entirely hand-written by the person who signed it. Admittedly, the use of "holographic" as the adjective form of "hologram" contributes to the confusion.
* "holy" (sacred) vs. "wholly" (completely, absolutely). Kipling punningly used both versions—correctly—in one of his poems: "Holy People, however it runs, Endeth in Wholly Slave." Similarly, the Discordians have "To diverse gods/Do mortals bow:/Holy cow/And Wholly Chao."
* Homo sapiens is not a plural, it's the official name for Earth's dominant clothed primate species. It means "wise man". So referring to yourself or anyone else as a "homo sapien" is incorrect.
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