The few buds it had at the time fell off long before they were ready to open. I thought I had some sort of virus, but a guy at Wolf's said hibiscus (hibisci?) are prone to iron deficiency and need lots of acid.

A word and its false friend may well be etymologically related: in such cases semantic shifts have made them drift apart.

Hurtis-Houairi, in lane three, quickly caught Arron, who was in lane four, winning in 22.80. Arron, who scratched the 100m semis in order to focus on the longer sprint, could only run 23.44.

There was only one person in the village who had actually known Luella Miller. That person was a woman well over eighty, but a marvel of vitality and unextinct youth.