Here’s a heuristic: when someone is describing (or, especially, dissing) some practice or methodology, don’t bother taking them seriously unless they know the difference between tenants and tenets. Examples abound.
Here’s a heuristic: when someone is describing (or, especially, dissing) some practice or methodology, don’t bother taking them seriously unless they know the difference between tenants and tenets. Examples abound.
Don’t forget anecdotal and antidotal – I’m sure there’s more.
Yes… this could end up being a fun game… and a long one. Another one is “I want to take a different tact”, when they mean “tack”.
Yes. Becuase speling thigns corectly is absoltuley necesary in geting yuor point acros.
I showed little tact by telling the anecdote about my tenants’ antidotal tack tenets.
Also, there’s a difference between bissextile and the other word that sounds like it.
— James
There is, of course, a big difference between a spelling mistake and using the wrong word.
While I’m here, others that bug me are:
flesh out vs. flush out
moot vs. mute
lead vs. led