October 22, 2004
Vile or vial?

Here’s the quote as copied and pasted from a humour email:

“There’s reports of price gouging going on for flu vaccine. It was $85 a vile?, now its up to $900 a vile?. So apparently Starbucks must be selling this stuff.”

Jay Leno

Now let’s compare definitions. I’ll let you choose the correct one.

vile
  1. despicable, ugly, vile, unworthy – (morally reprehensible; “would do something as despicable as murder”; “ugly crimes”; “the vile development of slavery appalled them”)
  2. filthy, foul, nasty, vile – (thoroughly unpleasant; “filthy (or foul or nasty or vile) weather we’re having”)
  3. nauseating, nauseous, noisome, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile – (causing or able to cause nausea; “a nauseating smell”; “nauseous offal”; “a sickening stench”)
vial
  1. phial, vial, ampule, ampul, ampoule – (a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle))

 
Posted by jservice at October 22, 2004 10:30 PM
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