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[TUHS] Unix style

[Doug McIlroy]

> "Reining in", please (peeve, peeve)

Ouch. Doubly so for the erstwhile curator of "spell".

(COuld "reigning in" somehow have been implanted by this
headline that I saw in The Economist a few days ago:
"The reign in Maine is easy to explain"?)

Doug

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[Steve Nickolas]

On Sat, 2 Aug 2014, Doug McIlroy wrote:

>> "Reining in", please (peeve, peeve)
>
> Ouch. Doubly so for the erstwhile curator of "spell".
>
> (COuld "reigning in" somehow have been implanted by this
> headline that I saw in The Economist a few days ago:
> "The reign in Maine is easy to explain"?)

I wonder if it's similar to how nobody can spell "free rein" correctly.

-uso.

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[Dave Horsfall]

On Sun, 3 Aug 2014, Steve Nickolas wrote:

> I wonder if it's similar to how nobody can spell "free rein" correctly.

My favourite is "Ladies and gentlemen, we will be landing momentarily."  
Err, aren't they going to let us "deplane" first?

-- Dave

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[John Cowan]

Dave Horsfall scripsit:

> My favourite is "Ladies and gentlemen, we will be landing momentarily."

I assume from the spelling "favourite" and your question that you're
not North American.

> Err, aren't they going to let us "deplane" first?

I'm afraid not.  Americans and Canadians have been using "momentarily"
to mean "in a moment" as well as "for a moment" since 1869.  That should
be time enough to catch up with us, or catch us up, as the case may be.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
People go through the bother of Christmas because Christmas helps them
to understand why they go through the bother of living out their lives
the rest of the year. For one brief instant, we see human society as it
should and could be, a world in which business has become the exchanging
of presents and in which nothing is important except the happiness and
well-being of the ultimate consumer.  --Northrop Frye (1948)

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[John Cowan]

Doug McIlroy scripsit:

> (COuld "reigning in" somehow have been implanted by this
> headline that I saw in The Economist a few days ago:
> "The reign in Maine is easy to explain"?)

It's a pretty common malapropism nowadays; almost 6M Google hits.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
It's the old, old story.  Droid meets droid.  Droid becomes chameleon.
Droid loses chameleon, chameleon becomes blob, droid gets blob back
again.  It's a classic tale.  --Kryten, Red Dwarf

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[Cory Smelosky]

On Sat, 2 Aug 2014, John Cowan wrote:

> Doug McIlroy scripsit:
>
>> (COuld "reigning in" somehow have been implanted by this
>> headline that I saw in The Economist a few days ago:
>> "The reign in Maine is easy to explain"?)
>
> It's a pretty common malapropism nowadays; almost 6M Google hits.
>
>

No love for "rayneing in"?

-- 
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects

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[scj]

To Doug's original point, I think "raining" features might be the best
metaphor...


> Doug McIlroy scripsit:
>
>> (COuld "reigning in" somehow have been implanted by this
>> headline that I saw in The Economist a few days ago:
>> "The reign in Maine is easy to explain"?)
>
> It's a pretty common malapropism nowadays; almost 6M Google hits.
>
> --
> John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
> It's the old, old story.  Droid meets droid.  Droid becomes chameleon.
> Droid loses chameleon, chameleon becomes blob, droid gets blob back
> again.  It's a classic tale.  --Kryten, Red Dwarf
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