Monday, July 24, 2006

Hold Your Horses

Lately, I've seen several uses of "free reign." Here are two examples. It's supposed to be "free rein."

The expression is about letting a horse loose, not about rulers who can do anything. I think this one's crossed over, though. Let's say goodbye to "free rein" and welcome our new, unhampered leader.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Go ahead-I've actually seen "free rain"- it was in a blog though

8:11 PM, July 23, 2006  
Blogger LAGuy said...

How do you give someone free rain? It's already free.

As to it being in a blog, get used to it. The forefront of English, for better or worse, is in the blogs.

9:22 PM, July 23, 2006  

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