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Non-native speaker here. Could you please elaborate?
by tmalsburg2 8y ago
Non-native speaker here. Could you please elaborate?
- velmu 8y agoThe title was "breaking", when it should have been "braking". This is fixed now.
- Yetanfou 8y agobraking: the act of stopping motion, generally by means of friction against a moving surface breaking: the act of rendering something unusable by means of destruction (see 'sabotage' when done wilfully) The pronunciation of 'braking' and 'breaking' is /ˈbɹeɪkɪŋ/, they are homophones ('same-sounds'). See also: https://writingexplained.org/break-vs-brake-difference https://writingexplained.org/break-vs-brake-difference