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.
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May 21-23, 2012
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Cary, NC
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San José, California, USA
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August 21-30, 2012
Beijing, China
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London, UK
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September 24-28, 2012
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Copenhagen, Denmark
A public class of Rapid Software Testing, organized by PrettyGoodTesting.
October 1-4, 2012
Anaheim, California
The STAR West Testing conference.
October 9-11, 2012
Toronto, Ontario
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November 5-8, 2012
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Don’t forget anecdotal and antidotal – I’m sure there’s more.
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”.
Yes. Becuase speling thigns corectly is absoltuley necesary in geting yuor point acros.
I showed little tact by telling the anecdote about my tenants’ antidotal tack tenets.
Also, there’s a difference between bissextile and the other word that sounds like it.
– James
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