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Quote: "... an ambitious program aiming to replace a long history of blunt trial-and-error treatment with what amounts to a training regiment [sic] for the body
by lutusp 11y ago
Quote: "... an ambitious program aiming to replace a long history of blunt trial-and-error treatment with what amounts to a training regiment [sic] for the body’s own immune system."
Please -- it's regimen, not regiment. One is a course of medical treatment, the other is a military unit.
I'm beginning to see this coinage more often, alongside the ever-popular reign where the writer means rein, as in reign (what a monarch does to a kingdom) instead of rein (what a cowboy does to a horse).
What happened to editing? While we're on the subject, what happened to literacy? I expect to walk into a bookstore and see a poster: "Buy 'The Tragedy of Illiteracy', now available as an audiobook."