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Nov. 8th, 2010 11:40 amTHE FOLLOWING IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT.
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.
