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Friday, September 11, 2009

Criminal Sentence 278: Former vs Formal

From a Web site:

"I ran into my formal teacher."

She meant "former teacher," I believe, unless her teacher was not informal. :)

"Former" means "previous."
"Formal" means "not informal."

I suppose they are easy to confuse, so watch out.

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