Schinckel.net

I’m continuing to archive and present the pick (IMHO) of the week’s PostSecret entries. Actually, a very similar thing happened in my family. Apparently my Dad kicked a cat, and my sister and I didn’t find out until her 21st birthday that it hadn’t been bitten by a snake. This last one is only in here for the Speeling Poleese. That’s a horde of barbarians, but people hoard things. From Apple’s Dictionary.app:

USAGE Take care not to confuse the same-sounding words hoard and horde. A hoard is ‘a secret stock or store of something’ (a hoard of treasure), while a horde is a disparaging word for ‘a large group of people’ (hordes of fans descended on the stage). One way to remember the difference is to think of ‘stashing your hoard behind the loose board’ (note the spelling likeness of hoard and board).