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dsrtaoprinciples. principals. different. not same.
principles: ideals, objects of faith, premises. A principle is almost always an idea.
principals: primary movers, people who matter, things which start other things. A principal is almost always a person, sometimes an object.
Work from first principles. Hold fast to your principles. The principle reason for eating is to obtain energy. The principles of science are explainable as rules for gathering Bayesian evidence.
The head of the school is called the principal. The lead elephant is the principal of the herd. The principal support is that big heavy block.
Teachers teach principles; principals give orders to teachers.
principles: ideals, objects of faith, premises. A principle is almost always an idea.
principals: primary movers, people who matter, things which start other things. A principal is almost always a person, sometimes an object.
Work from first principles. Hold fast to your principles. The principle reason for eating is to obtain energy. The principles of science are explainable as rules for gathering Bayesian evidence.
The head of the school is called the principal. The lead elephant is the principal of the herd. The principal support is that big heavy block.
Teachers teach principles; principals give orders to teachers.
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Date: 2011-08-26 05:22 pm (UTC)The rage-inducing one for me is affect/effect/effect/affect. Cause the damn verbs and nouns are more or less backward from each other. (And you almost never mean affect as a noun, unless you're me.)
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Date: 2011-08-26 09:38 pm (UTC)For an encore, feel like tackling populace/populous? I am surprised by how many people get this one wrong...
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Date: 2011-08-26 10:49 pm (UTC)How about definitely vs. defiantly? When that one goes wrong, I find myself wondering about the writer's mental state.
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Date: 2011-08-26 11:38 pm (UTC)Populous: a word used to describe a place where lots of people live together.
I blame spellcheck. When the little red squiggles disappear, people stop caring.
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Date: 2011-08-27 03:19 am (UTC)What makes me more enraged is I have to write that in an email to clients.
Because the marketing dude knows better what people understand.
/headdesk at speed.
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Date: 2011-08-27 12:03 pm (UTC)