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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 - (see all news for this day)
decrepid/decrepit - 12:15 PM
(filed under 'general')
writing that last entry, i used the word, 'decrepit'. for years, i've always thought it was 'decrepid' ending with a 'd' & i've been spelling it as such.
only recently have i seen it written down & noticed that it ended with a 't'. i thought it was misspelled when i saw it, but it turns out it was me that was spelling it incorrectly .. all this time! argh!
oh well, at least i know now.
comment posted by Jillis on June 15, 2007 03:07 AM:
Can't blame yourself, it's not 'timit' or 'hybrit' is it?
Can't blame yourself, it's not 'timit' or 'hybrit' is it?
comment posted by dave on June 18, 2007 12:18 PM:
one needs to learn something new each day. looks like you got yours for the day.
one needs to learn something new each day. looks like you got yours for the day.
comment posted by Ren on June 25, 2007 07:51 PM:
And funnily enough, none of my spell-checkers pick it up. I still get confused with learned and learnt.
And funnily enough, none of my spell-checkers pick it up. I still get confused with learned and learnt.
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This one reminds me of a science article on the new high tempeture superconductors. The administrative assistant mistakenly replaced 'Y' (yttrium) with 'Yb' (Ytterbium). Caused a bit of a rowe when everyone else in the physics community tried out the mistaken formula and it did not work.