Please Note (word choice crankiness division):

[gnomi]

(And, please further note, none of this is directed toward anyone reading here...I've just gotten fed up.)

Word confusion is everywhere. Here are some quick pointers:

Rein and reign: You reign over a land. You give someone free rein.

(also? People are never, never given "free rain." Well, I guess one does not have to pay for weather events. But... no. Never.)

Phase and faze: You can be going through a phase. Characters on certain science fiction television shows can be out of phase. They may or may not be fazed by this turn of events.

Thank you.

Comments

[half-double.livejournal.com]

publishers should be having actual people look at the manuscripts closely

If only. The most recent anthology I'm in? About which I have already kvetched? In one of the essays there is a reference to that classic Disney ditty, "Whose Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"

I'm willing to wager quite a lot of money that that error was not in the essay as originally submitted.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Oh, yikes. Editing introducing errors is my worst nightmare, editorialwise.