Hey, wow, thanks! As I've been seeing it incorrect all this time, I genuinely didn't know the synonym of disconcert was spelled 'faze,' and not 'phase!' Heh, who'd have thunk I'd actually learn something here?
It's one of the most annoying misspellings because "phase" is actually a word, so spellcheckers don't catch it. Tip: you automatically learn how to spell a word you've just learned if you learned it by, oh, reading a book. Handy, eh?
That's where it gets weird with oft-incorrect phrases, mondegreens and typos... I've seen such used incorrectly in all manner of works, big and small, which might perpetuate misuse among the public. I had a textbook that regularly mixed up there/their/they're your/you're, and we were awarded bonus points for finding them. Even the esteemed Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language' and the Oxford English Dictionary had errors - some recurring.
GordonFreeman said: So phase is what you go through and faze is the verb? I am stunned.
"phase" and "faze" are unrelated. "phase" just means a period of time, especially one during which a characteristic of something is constant, or in physics can also refer to a certain characteristic of a waveform (which can extend to other things as well). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase .
"faze" means "to unnerve", "to cause to lose confidence", "to cause to be taken aback", etc.
"phase" can also be a verb (it's probably zero-derivational), as in "phase out", to gradually remove, i.e. by grades or by phases), or the sci-fi meaning of "going out of phase with our reality" or some such technobabble.
I know they are unrelated. This is one of those situations where you hear a word spoken often but not written, so you assume that the spelling is the same as a word that you do see written.
Anyways, how many pages do those dictionaries have and how many editors are there? I know that the more familiar you become with a document, the lesser the chances of you noticing mistakes. Then again, there seem to be disagreements over what certain rules are. For example, my elementary teachers said that when you are separating words with "and" you put a comma after each object( when there's more than two) and you may or may not put a comma after the last one. I haven't bothered to find out the official rule.
this is photoshopped. notice when he first pulls his hand away, you can barily see through the blurr the end of his finger seems to go with his other hand. besides, both hands are supposed to be moving, according to the video that the random d00d linked to.
