To come to completion; end

e-mail
from: Mary
to: Jason

I knew that "culmative" was not spelled correctly, but couldn't figure out why the spell-checker couldn't help me.

turns out i've been thinking/saying:
"KUL-MA-TIVE"

instead of

"KYOUM-U-LA-TIVE"

How embarrassing.

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12:21 PM Jason: those two are close in meaning, no?
me: whatchu mean
12:23 PM Jason: nevermind.
apex v. combined.
12:24 PM me: so how do you spell kulmative
?
12:25 PM Jason: cumalativity.
12:26 PM cumulative.
me: culminate
is the apex
cumulative
is combined
and
culmative
means NOTHING!!