"The artifex verborum of the dream ... was no less adept than the waking Coleridge in the metamorphosis of words." — John Livingston Lowes, The Road to Xanadu. Observations on language (mostly ancient), religion, and culture.
By Edward M. Cook, Ph.D.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
IT'S "FREE REIN"
Once again, I encountered the spelling "free reign" in a magazine. This is starting to happen a lot. NO. This is not correct. The correct spelling is free rein. Get it right or pay the price.
7 comments:
The rein falleth on the chest and the nun just alike.
Come on Ed, for all intensive purposes its the same thing.
Well, these "egg-corns" are always fun to read.
Of course, as I just twittered to my brother, with the move to tax rain water, perhaps we should concern ourselves with "free rain."
Get it right or pay the price.Yeah - you tell them to tow the line!
Wow, NT, didn't you ever watch "Salute Your Shorts"?
Guess not. Your loss.
It makes me wanna fart.
I recently read a book that spoke of "dust moats" in the air. I suspect that wasn't quite what was really meant.
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