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>gastrointestinal track I've seen 'tract' and 'track' confused so often that I wonder if the latter is taking over as standard use, and me shaking my gnarled f
by klondike_klive 6y ago
>gastrointestinal track
I've seen 'tract' and 'track' confused so often that I wonder if the latter is taking over as standard use, and me shaking my gnarled fist at the skies. cf. "Phenomena" instead of "phenomenon", "bias" instead of "biased", etc etc
- beowulfey 6y agoerr... is "phenomena" not the plural of phenomenon? and isn't "biased" the past tense (or adjective) form of bias? totally agree with gastrointestinal track being wrong though, that's a definite error! EDIT: I searched google and the first result for phenomena was (under "People Also Ask") "What is an example of a phenomena" which is probably the kind of nonsense you are referring to..
- _Microft 6y ago> isn't "biased" the past tense (or adjective) form of bias? This form is called "participle" if you are curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participle
- foobarbecue 6y agohttps://youtu.be/JTslqcXsFd4 https://youtu.be/JTslqcXsFd4 covers a bunch of these (no homophones though since it seems to be about speaking rather than writing).
- interestica 6y agoShaking your fist? Literally? Or literally?
- elliekelly 6y agoTwice this week I’ve seen someone mention how they were going to “sus out” $thing and I can’t help but feel like Among Us has forever changed the spelling of “suss” and conflated “suss” with “suspicious”.
- elliottkember 6y ago“suss” is also derived from the word “suspect”/“suspicious”. Suspicere means “to mistrust”.