simulator and stimulator, as was once heard in our household “I was playing flight stimulator”.

IDIEEASY, Wednesday 5th Mar 2008, 10AM #

sympathize and synthesize, ie ‘Wasn’t he a nazi sythesizer?’

antidote and anecdote, ie ‘Quick, give him the anecdote to save his life.’

era, Wednesday 5th Mar 2008, 12PM #

vegan and freegan - you might get fed something manky the chef pulls out of a bin.

Jody, Wednesday 5th Mar 2008, 3PM #

deprecate and depreciate – simply because it annoys me when people ‘depreciate’ APIs.

Brehaut, Wednesday 5th Mar 2008, 4PM #

specific and pacific. Because precision/speciality and peace/a giant ocean are really not the same thing.

Christina, Wednesday 5th Mar 2008, 10PM #

masticate and well, im sure you can work it out – Oh dear. really?!

Brehaut, Wednesday 5th Mar 2008, 11PM #

immorality and immortality - always fun :)

KT, Thursday 6th Mar 2008, 1PM #

Conjugate and conjugal, e.g “conjugating in the hall”. Actually a lot of fun, that one :)

Christina, Thursday 6th Mar 2008, 4PM #

attorney and eternity, e.g. when you ask your lawyer at what point power of eternity kicks in.

Ross, Friday 7th Mar 2008, 6PM #

‘Rouse’ and ‘arouse’, ie to someone sleeping the day away… ‘Arouse yourself!’

Greg, Saturday 8th Mar 2008, 6AM #

Castigate and castrate. I’ll leave you to think of the example sentence yourselves :)

Christina, Sunday 9th Mar 2008, 9PM #