> > > Aya"I never trusted my English teachers to answer such questions, especially after I found out one didn't know the difference between 'stationary' and 'stationery'."ko
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> > What is the difference? I didn't even know there was a word spelled stationery... I've probably been using it and spelling it just like the other one... On second thought, maybe I'll just go look it up on www.dictionary.com and save you all the trouble of replying.
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> > Don "The Monkey'Loves www.dictionary.com because he owns a good dictionary which he bought for etiology in a latin course and now his roommate always steals it for various reasons so Don can never find it'man" Jackson
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> I WAS using it incorrectly, spelling both words as though they were the same... Now I feel uneducated.
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> Don "The Monkey'This is why engineers should have to take more English courses'man" Jackson

This is how to remember the difference between stationery (the books-pens-and-papers one) and stationary (the remaining-motionless one): a stationER sells stationERY.