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Originally Posted by HarryT
There probably are people who genuinely believe it has to do with their "rights", as with expressions like "right of way" or "right to arm bears".
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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
Dunno. This isn't a typo but a mistake by someone who doesn't even know the meaning of the words he uses. It would have taken a very good book indeed for me to keep on going after that. Since it was a bit meh anyway, I just dropped it.
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I wasn't thinking it was a typo, I was thinking more that the author, consciously or unconsciously typed the wrong word, thinking, perhaps, as Harry says, or that he would type something like "All students have a right to take that class" and then he or an editor missed correcting it.
I often type the wrong "there|their|they're" as I'm drafting, not because I don't know which one to use, but because I sometimes type on autopilot, and then I immediately correct it.*
ApK
*or in the case of forum posts, chats and other extemporania, I don't correct it, and just look like I don't know the meaning of the words I use.