I think the author of this snippet from Yahoo! Personals was thinking about diamonds, but was weighing in on gold:
A karat is used to measure the fineness of gold. The word the writer wants is carat — the unit of measure for diamonds. A 4-karat ring would be about 16% pure gold, but a 4-carat ring would be a rock.
September 9, 2008 at 3:15 pm
I suppose we should be glad they’re at least in the ballpark (it is Shine, after all) and not writing about carrots.
February 13, 2011 at 3:24 pm
Or carets.