Something Epic» Words http://www.somethingepic.com Encouraging radical lives that matter Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:01:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Vocabulary review: “humbled” vs. “honored” http://www.somethingepic.com/vocabulary-review-humbled-vs-honored/ http://www.somethingepic.com/vocabulary-review-humbled-vs-honored/#comments Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:44:48 +0000 Sarah Lewis http://www.somethingepic.com/2006/11/01/vocabulary-review-humbled-vs-honored/ Why do people think these words are synonymous?

Look them up: humbled vs. honored

Funny, to me they seem to be kind of… um… opposites. And yet…

The response has far surpassed our expectations and we are extremely humbled by the huge interest.

That quote seems typical lately of the kind of stuff I see by developers of exciting software, by bloggers who’ve been dugg, whatever. The obsessive word nerd in me is slightly irked. :)

Fortunately for you, I have the attention span of a gnat, and I’ll get over it momentarily.

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