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[-] GabrielBell12fi@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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!

[-] Timwi@kbin.social 12 points 6 months ago
[-] GabrielBell12fi@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

(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.

[-] Timwi@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago

Don't be too hard on yourself. English spelling is not exactly cooperative.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Isn't it ironic, don't you think?

[-] harmsy@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

A little too ironic, and yeah I really do think.

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