RE: Reflections on my first week

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Reflections on my first week

in blog •  6 years ago 

Holy crap I've been spelling it wrong! And that's not like me -- I'm usually the resident grammar nazi in my circles.

Thanks @grammarnazi!

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That's my wife's passion and reason for living.
She's an ESL (English as a Second Language for those who don't know) who went to school for linguistics. She lives and breathes for correctness.
Twitter just about killed her with how it got people used to shortforming everything

Me, I'm more of an intent kind of guy. You know what I mean, then its all good
Could be why i have to edit my posts 5 or 6 times even after proofreading twice before hitting the submit button.
LOL

Generally both formats are acceptable unless you're talking about physical type. "Minuscule" was the original formulation in the printing industry, but as a metaphor "miniscule" has become more and more popular and most people don't care that it doesn't reflect the original meaning. (Or even know the original meaning.)