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The New Yorker is weird like that. They also insist on misspelling 'ensure' as 'insure': https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-an-elite-university-resea

by pen2l 7y ago

The New Yorker is weird like that. They also insist on misspelling 'ensure' as 'insure': https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-an-elite-university-research-center-concealed-its-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-an-elite-univer... I think they're just abusing their poetic license at this point, with the amount of times they choose to use archaic spellings and meanings of words, and I wish they would actually stop.

sureaboutthis 7y ago
You mean ensure versus insure? I think you need to look up the meanings of both.
Tomte 7y ago
> They also insist on misspelling 'ensure' as 'insure' M-W agrees, and not even marks it as archaic: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insure https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insure
- everybodyknows 7y ago
  Ensure and insure carry different connotations, as detailed at the bottom of the Webster link. Likewise here: https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=assure https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=assure
  - Tomte 7y ago
    Though they differ only slightly, and in the concrete example in the article "insure" still fits, IMO.