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Wow, just realized English has two phrases that are homonyms but mean very different things: • “rite of passage” = “a ceremony or event marking an important st
by svat 7y ago
Wow, just realized English has two phrases that are homonyms but mean very different things:
• “rite of passage” = “a ceremony or event marking an important stage in someone's life”, “when an individual leaves one group to enter another”. (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rite_of_passage&oldid=899988431 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rite_of_passage&o...)
• “right of passage” = right of way, “(approximately) a country's right for its ships to pass through the territorial seas of foreign states and straits used for international navigation”. (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Right_of_passage&oldid=871361355 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Right_of_passage&...) Seems to be more often a typo for “rite of passage”.
- dwd 7y agoYes, rite of passage. Not sure how I managed to type the wrong spelling, brain seeming a bit glitchy.