Thursday, March 06, 2008

 

Heuristic: Tenets vs. tenants

Here's a heuristic: when someone is describing (or, especially, dissing) some practice or methodology, don't bother taking them seriously unless they know the difference between tenants and tenets. Examples abound.

# posted by Michael @ 12:39 AM
Comments:
Don't forget anecdotal and antidotal - I'm sure there's more.
# posted by Anonymous alan : 9:11 AM
 
Yes... this could end up being a fun game... and a long one. Another one is "I want to take a different tact", when they mean "tack".
# posted by Blogger Michael : 9:36 AM
 
Yes. Becuase speling thigns corectly is absoltuley necesary in geting yuor point acros.
# posted by Blogger Zach Fisher : 11:26 AM
 
I showed little tact by telling the anecdote about my tenants' antidotal tack tenets.
# posted by Blogger Ben Simo : 1:48 PM
 
Also, there's a difference between bissextile and the other word that sounds like it.

-- James
# posted by Blogger James Bach : 5:18 PM
 
There is, of course, a big difference between a spelling mistake and using the wrong word.

While I'm here, others that bug me are:
flesh out vs. flush out
moot vs. mute
lead vs. led
# posted by Anonymous alan : 1:09 AM
 
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