From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 00:30:23 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [TUHS] Unix style
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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.