As unbelievable as it sounds I had only ever heard it said – I’d never seen it written down. (Or if I have I don’t remember seeing it written down – must have been twenty, thirty years ago.) I am not a horse person, so I don’t deal with vocab relating to horses all that often.
No, no, he had it right the first time: the sorts of people who want to look in your windows really do want to reign, like an autocrat.
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(I’m just riffing off your comment to make a point. I don’t actually think the person was that clever and agree it was a typo.)
I thought it was “free reign” but reign as in the way you reign a horse – you give your horse “free reign” to do as it wishes.
EDIT : huh. Turns out I am right, but you “rein” a horse not “reign”. Derp!
That’s still rein.
(grin) Yeah – I realised that after I wrote it.
As unbelievable as it sounds I had only ever heard it said – I’d never seen it written down. (Or if I have I don’t remember seeing it written down – must have been twenty, thirty years ago.) I am not a horse person, so I don’t deal with vocab relating to horses all that often.
Just one of those things I guess.
Don’t be too hard on yourself. English spelling is not exactly cooperative.
Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?
A little too ironic, and yeah I really do think.