The word 'phased'

[ScabbyHorse]

It's fazed! Or unfazed. Not phased or unphased!

Depends on the meaning surely? You can be unfazed by things that would annoy others and also have a phased return to work after a break.

Totally agree scabby!

Totally agree. (And you can’t be ‘unphased’!)

Yes.So irritating. Unless you are on a phased return to work as BlackAmericanoNoSugar suggests, in which case as you were.....

Quite right Scabby. How very dare they?

I think you can be unphased if you were phased following a transporter accident.

You might well be fazed by being in a transporter accident at all?

Glad it's not just me.

Yes 'to phase' is something different, meaning to carry something out or to introduce something in stages. Right, I'm happy I got that off my chest.

Infinite curve

Yep!

I would like to park queue and cue here, to say nothing of their love-child que. (I would like to think it’s an autocorrect mistake)

Yes! Knittedfairies

I think unphased does exist as a word. It's a technical term for something to do with pendulum calibration

“Passed” instead of “past” is everywhere too.

“I have long hair passed my shoulders”
“He stares every time I walk passed”

That sort of thing.

Couldn't unphased mean that instead of doing something in stages, it is being done all in one go.

And click and clique.

Yes, mistakes like that irritate me in the newspaper but I try not to let it faze me.

Have we had diffuse? I keep seeing it everywhere when people mean 'defuse', and they've even started pronouncing it 'diffuse', presumably because they see it written wrongly like that. 'Diffuse' is a different and useful word.

And what's with this business of spelling 'woman' (singular) as the plural?