[TUHS] Unix style

Steve Nickolas usotsuki at buric.co
Sun Aug 3 10:30:23 AEST 2014


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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