What's the difference between ferrier and perrier?
Ferrier
Definition:
(n.) A ferryman.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only black, female reporter on Florida’s Daytona Beach News-Journal, from 2007 Ferrier was targeted with a stream of abusive letters threatening lynchings and a “race war”, all in the same handwriting and from the same potentially dangerous person.
(2) Evacuated to Bournemouth at the outbreak of war, Drummond went to hear the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and a recital by Kathleen Ferrier, whose biography he was to film 20 years later in what was probably his most successful television production.
(3) It offers what Ferrier calls a “hedge of protection”.
(4) The SNP’s Margaret Ferrier, the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on democracy and human rights in the Gulf, who coordinated the letter, said: “This is a matter of freedom of speech and expression.
(5) Synthons 4 and 9 were coupled with tri-O-acetyl-D-glucal in a boron trifluoride-catalysed "carbon-Ferrier rearrangement" reaction to give C-linked disaccharides i.e., so-called "C-disaccharides" 16 and 17, respectively, in fair yields.
(6) Ferrier prototyped the site with four other women using a $3,000 grant for women in news entrepreneurship, and later received $35,000 from the Knight Foundation , which supports quality journalism and media innovation.
(7) Ischemic condition was produced by superfusing myocytes with hypoxic substrate-free solutions containing elevated concentrations of K+, H+, and lactate as described by Ferrier et al.
(8) Ferrier in 1875 drew non-overlapping circles for face, limbs and tail.
(9) His theories were based on detailed clinical observation and were later confirmed by the experimental studies of Fritsch and Hitzig, and by his colleague David Ferrier.
(10) Organized by Sir James Crichton-Browne at a little-known mental asylum in northern England, the WRLAMR contains many historically important works in neurology by such landmark figures as Sir David Ferrier and John Hughlings Jackson.
(11) Although he was substantially correct, Ferrier's location of auditory cortex was not accepted by his contemporaries, and his observations of cortical deafness were, until recently, discounted by modern researchers.
(12) Stories of or by people of colour tend to be targeted the most,” Ferrier says.
(13) Ailsa Ferrier works for Artificial Eye Film releasing, one of Britain's leading distributors of arthouse and independent films
(14) [2,2-2H2]-2-Deoxy-scyllo-inosose was also synthesized through a modified Ferrier reaction.
(15) Afraid for her family, Ferrier left the paper and moved away.
(16) Ferrier is also fighting back with TrollBusters , a “rescue service for women journalists, bloggers and publishers”.
(17) For two years, Michelle Ferrier was the target of a campaign of intimidation and harassment.
(18) David Ferrier was a British physician who studied the localization of function in the cerebral hemispheres during the latter half of the 19th century.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Michelle Ferrier, who is fighting back with TrollBusters , a ‘rescue service for women journalists, bloggers and publishers’.
(20) Who reads Susan Ferrier, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Porter and Lady Morgan today, or even Walter Scott?
Perrier
Definition:
(n.) A short mortar used formerly for throwing stone shot.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Perrier award, meanwhile, prompted a personal crisis: for several years, Kitson seemed ashamed of having won it and afraid of the mainstream success that it, and Phoenix Nights, promised.
(2) The younger generation of comics – who include 2002 Perrier award winner Daniel Kitson, Josie Long and recent Edinburgh comedy award winner Tim Key – are pioneering a brand of standup that wishes no offence to anyone.
(3) She was one of the poshest people I had ever met – she drank Perrier water, which at that time was exotic beyond belief.
(4) For the past 27 years, Burns has also run what used to be known as the Perrier comedy awards in Edinburgh .
(5) He's a Perrier award-winner – with the sketch troupe The League of Gentlemen – but no household name.
(6) Kitson has had two career-defining experiences: starring as the recurring character Spencer the barman in the Peter Kay sitcom Phoenix Nights , and winning that 2002 Perrier.
(7) If you can buy a bottle of Perrier for £1 in my shop or down the road in a nice-looking shop for £1.50, then why wouldn’t you?” Poundland online?
(8) Concerning a hapless band attempting to find success with both music and women, it was Perrier-nominated at Edinburgh, found a home on Radio 2, then crossed the Atlantic to settle very nicely on HBO.
(9) The 2004 Perrier award winner appears at first glance to be finally doing a standup show.
(10) Now one of the most bankable comedians in the UK, McIntyre's career famously began in front of tiny audiences at the Edinburgh fringe, where he was nominated for the Perrier best newcomer award in 2003 .
(11) Sarah Kendall is a Perrier Award-nominated comedian and mother.
(12) Other winners of the prize – formerly known as the Perrier Award – include Frank Skinner, the League of Gentlemen and Daniel Kitson.
(13) Calculation of adequate gentamicin dosage regimen during steady-state based on individual pharmacokinetic parameters according to Gibaldi & Perrier was then studied in 35 newborn infants during therapy.
(14) Fry has since characterised his friendship with Laurie as "untainted by any sort of schoolboy rivalry" and together the threesome went on to dominate the Footlights comedy club, winning the first Perrier award at Edinburgh in 1981.
(15) I was putting my Perrier water in the fridge when the doorbell rang.
(16) We were pitted against them for the Perrier and I said I wouldn't mind if they beat us.
(17) The award, previously sponsored by Perrier and now sponsored by Fosters, is a major marker of new comedy talent and has been won by most well-known British comedians since it was first launched in 1981.
(19) Christie, Lyons and Porter all have shows at this year's fringe, three of more than a thousand comedy shows over August which include regulars such as Stewart Lee and Richard Herring and returners such as Frank Skinner, 23 years after he won the Perrier comedy award.
(20) Ten years after winning the Perrier award for comedy , Kitson – bearded, stammering, northern and little known beyond the live comedy and theatre circuits – is routinely cited as "the best comic of his generation" and lionised by other comics.