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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
I'm sure I've mentioned this one before, but it's beginning to irk me - which is a real achievement as I tend to be very laissez-faire about such 'errors'. But someithng about the increasingly widespread use of "discrete" for "discreet" really pushes my buttons
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On several occasions. See
message #533 in this thread where you wrote:
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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
The one that surprises me with its frequency is "discrete" for "discreet". "Loose" for "lose" is widely looked down, yet even authors (and their editors) who display far too much wordcraft to make that error, still fail to separate the other two.
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I seem to remember your complaining about discrete vs. discreet on several other occasions. I just classify that word pair as yet another issue with homonyms that many authors have issues with.