From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Subject: [TUHS] Unix style
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 00:30:23 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1408030029510.64450@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201408030015.s730FRbt025453@coolidge.cs.dartmouth.edu>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-03 0:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-03 0:15 Doug McIlroy
2014-08-03 0:30 ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
2014-08-03 0:39 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-08-03 0:56 ` John Cowan
2014-08-03 0:35 ` John Cowan
2014-08-03 0:38 ` Cory Smelosky
2014-08-04 19:02 ` scj
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