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DISCREET: Subtle, careful, under the radar. She discreetly pushed her bra strap back under her shirt. (Is it possible to do this discreetly? I haven't figured out how. But I digress.)
DISCRETE: Separate and individual. I will steal Merriam-Webster's example because I have way less practice using this in a sentence: There are several discrete sections to this vast medical complex, including a college of pharmacology and a research center.
If you need a trick to remember it, try thinking of the E's in "discrete" being two discrete units, separated as they are by the T.
Please. Stop making this mistake. It's almost as bad as loose/lose, and it is damn embarrassing to see when I know for a fact that the person doing it is too smart to get tripped up byhomonyms HOMOPHONES see I'm not perfect either, nothing wrong with that.
That is all.
DISCREET: Subtle, careful, under the radar. She discreetly pushed her bra strap back under her shirt. (Is it possible to do this discreetly? I haven't figured out how. But I digress.)
DISCRETE: Separate and individual. I will steal Merriam-Webster's example because I have way less practice using this in a sentence: There are several discrete sections to this vast medical complex, including a college of pharmacology and a research center.
If you need a trick to remember it, try thinking of the E's in "discrete" being two discrete units, separated as they are by the T.
Please. Stop making this mistake. It's almost as bad as loose/lose, and it is damn embarrassing to see when I know for a fact that the person doing it is too smart to get tripped up by
That is all.
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I know I keep harping on loose/lose, but it's so ubiquitous online that I don't think it can be attributed to mostly typos. I think there are a lot of internet users who honestly think "lose" has two O's, because that error is just SO common. I'll admit that I've hesitated over it a couple times myself when I'm tired, because I see it so often that even though I know it's wrong, my brain is starting to accept it despite my input. Which is probably why I'm complaining about it so much, because that's embarrassing for me.