{"id":95,"date":"2014-03-18T10:20:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T23:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/?p=95"},"modified":"2016-11-21T10:21:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T23:21:29","slug":"the-difference-between-phase-and-faze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/journal\/notes\/the-difference-between-phase-and-faze\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between phase and faze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have very rarely seen these two mixed up but since this pair, like many in the English language, sound exactly the same, I thought I\u2019d just make a brief note about them.<\/p>\n<p>phase (noun)\u2014a stage in the development of something<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>On Thursday, we moved onto the third phase of the experiment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>\u2018Don\u2019t worry about Sally. It\u2019s just a phase. She\u2019ll get over it.\u2019<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>phase (verb)\u2014to complete something in gradual states<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>The course is being phased over three years.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>faze (verb)\u2014to be disconcerted or concerned about something<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>The gradient of the slope didn\u2019t seem to faze the skiers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>She was fazed by the number of judges watching her as she walked onto the stage.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On paper, at least, not a common mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}