Spelling PSA
Hey, all you good DUers,
The phrase some of you want is “free rein” (as in letting a horse run), not “free reign.”
That is all. Thank you.
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Trump wanted unfettered monarchal (arguably dictatorial) freedom to reign.
Not to mention, I detest thinking of horses (or any other beloved animal) in the same context as Trump. 
I avoid using it! 
an: Used to indicate a singular thing or condition where the word following is pronounced with a glottal eruption (the vowels a, e, i, o and sometimes u) as in
an hour; an apple an opening, an insult, an envelope, an underling.
a: Used to indicate a singular thing or condition where the word following is pronounced with consonant or the letters u and y as in
a situation; a cat; a chair, a yacht, a ukulele.
than/then ("always use less then a 50/50 mixture..." )
then/than ("If you believe that, than you've got another think coming." )
they're/their ("...their doing it to save themselves.." )
their/there ("...will be under indictment for there crimes.." )
theirs/there's ("Anybody here gotten there's?" )
regard/regards ("There are no states in "good shape" in regards to Covid-19." )
rein/reign ("give free reign to..." )
rein/rain ("there isn't enough regulation to rain in the corporate conglomerate..." )
its/it's ("...this bill in it's current form" )
it's/its ("It comes straight out of her ass and she thinks its gold." )
defuse/diffuse ("diffuse the situation" )
our/are ("Don't take away are rights!" )
affect/effect ("the rule change didn't effect us" )
effect/affect ("the affects on the economy will be devastating" )
past/passed (" I couldn't get passed the first page.." )
role/roll ("She seemed to be just playing some kind of roll." )
role/roll ("...thought it was some sort of role call..." )
queue/cue ("Cars lined up in a three-mile cue in San Antonio..." )
block/bloc ("He's a chip off the old bloc, all right." )
advise/advice ("I wouldn't advice you to do that" )
advice/advise ("It may cost some people who acted on that advise their lives." )
aid/aide ("come to the aide of the country" )
aide/aid ("He worked at a Dallas area law firm as some sort of legal aid." )
course/coarse ("...in the coarse of one eventful week" )
where/were ("tell him were to go" )
too/to ("none to happy" 
"...I feel great, I really do, I look great, to..." )
to/too ("I do not know who to attribute this too..." )
excerpt/exert ("a short exert from a much longer work" )
waver/waiver ("his base doesn't waiver" )
your/you're ("you're credibility took a hit" )
you're/your ("Your an asshole; your a Traitor!" )
worst/worse ("preparing for the worse" )
believe/belief ("do you belief or suspect..." )
whine/wine ("...they are gonna wine..." )
lose/loose ("be prepared to loose your love ones" )
loved/love ("be prepared to loose your love ones" )
throes/throws ("in the throws of a pandemic " )
flout/flaunt ("more likely to flaunt social distancing guidelines" )
principal/principle ("country’s principle east-west rail link" )
principles/principals ("... if people with American principals don't stand up..." )
knead/kneed ("I usually kneed my bread..." )
whose/who's (" I don't really care who's idea it is..." )
who's/whose ("If that's whose left I'll take my chances with the Donner Party." )
edition/addition ("We are all on Apprentice: Survivor Crossover Addition?" )
woman/women ("A smart women I knew..." )
rappel/repel ("Hell, I'll repel down if I have to." )
wear/where ("Stay at home, where a mask when you go out..." )
hordes/hoards ("there would be hoards of people coming..." )
allowed/aloud ("they weren't aloud to have more than one Monty python quote" )
farewell/fair well ("Star Trek: The Next Generation finale was a perfect hail and fair well" )
cooperation/corporation ("it sets the template for corporation..." )
correspondents'/correspondence ("The Last Great White House Correspondence Dinner" )
rend/rent (" He will rent it asunder..." )
ash heap/asheep ("...send it to the asheep of history..." )
do/due ("One human, one elderly Jack Russell terrier; we're making due." )
dyeing/dying ("In her tiny mind, dying her roots gray would make a point." )
herd/heard ("Heard of elephants hold up traffic in Thailand." )
except/accept ("OPEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY! Accept during select posted days and times." )
stealing/steeling ("So he's a thief, steeling the people's stuff to fence." )
intact/in tact ("...people who hold those ideals in tact and in reality." )
tenterhooks/tender hooks ("...from walking on tender hooks to walking on a knife edge." )
any way/anyway ("You can count on them to create controversy anyway they can." )
retch/wretch ("......makes me want to wretch." )
prank/prance ("...thinking my family was prancing me with some weird alternative version." )
no/know ("..Senator that answered yes or know questions with a yes or no and that was it." )
hear/here ("When you here the mayor say at the beginning that it isn't a problem..." )
shudder/shutter ("I shutter to think what France, Italy, and Belgium's numbers would be." )
Hear, hear!/Here, here! (why would anyone say, "at this place, at this place!" ?)
quiet/quite ("...they will disappear or quite down to some degree." )
whit/wit ("... but I don't care a wit." )
feel/fill ("Now every housewife can fill like a queen." )
breathe/breath ("Tell me how I’m supposed to breath with no air." )
knew/new ("... thought they new everything..." )
buy/by ("I can by washcloths by the dozen at WalMart." )
cast/caste ("Let's caste aside that doom and gloom." )
beware/be ware ("Is there something I should be ware of?" could have meant "be aware." )
hang out/hangout ("Not a group I want to hangout with." )
rolls/roles ("...while the tide softly roles in beside them." )
gouging/gauging ("Walgreens price gauging..." ) [possibly just a misspelling?]
wait/weight ("Did the swab and now we weight." )
sight/site ("That default is in plain site I hope the american public sees..." )
cite/site ("He went on to site statistics..." )
tail/tale ("The whale shark's tale makes a fine time-to-go-fishing marker." )
tale/tail ("...the stone has tails to tell." )
medieval/mid evil ("...would make mid evil torturers envious." )
want/what ("If you what to know why read/research." )
led/lead ("76 trombones lead the big parade." )
fray/Frey ("Especially when he stays above the Frey..." )
hail/hale ("...avoid flying debris, hale and lightning." )
straitjacket/straight jacket ("...you're probably badly in need of a straight jacket." )
used/use ("All of it things we use to listen to." )
plentiful/plenty full ("In my line of work, the dead are plenty full." )
tolls/trolls ("...resulting in death trolls three times higher than the next closest nation." )
aisle/isle ("...cleanup on isle three." )
disperse/disburse ("...and they've been given multiple orders to disburse." )
specter/scepter ("...raising the scepter of the boogeyman..." )
the/thee ("He is thee top dog - period." )
sell/cell (“Dow recovers after the worst cell off since March.” )
affecting/effecting ("...how the stress is effecting us." )
waste/waist ("Panic is a waist of energy” that’s what I tell my wife nearly daily." )
poll/pole ("I haven’t seen a specific pole; I just watch the news." )
statues/statutes ("If statutes were only for perfect people, only my Grandma would get one." )
hawked/hocked ("...the four men hocked their “Miracle Mineral Solution” as a cure-all..." )
hole up/hold up ("Let him hold up in the WH, stop all deliveries,..." )
tenets/tenants ("...defending tenants like Christ’s virgin birth..." )
clique/click ("Police are not a click..." )
vial/vile ("Walmart started their insulin program over the counter, $25 per vile..." )
dyed/died ("a died in the wool Republican..." )
stock-in-trade/stock and trade ("It's their stock and trade, and they're pulling out all the stops..." )
bellwether/bell weather ("Peggy Lerner is not running, a bell weather." )
reeks/wreaks ("...Everything Trump Is Doing Right Now 'Wreaks Of Desperation'" )
vicious/viscous ("...viscous idiots who don't care if their actions kill people." )
led/lead ("...they are lead by an egocentric idiot..." )
hordes/hoards ("Where are the hoards of lawyers Biden has?" )
reckless/wreckless ("He needs to answer for the wreckless endangerment..." )
nickers/knickers ("...horse knickers..." [closed captioning on a TV program])
bow/bough ("They will erect an entire professional bull riding arena on the bough of the flight deck.." )
discreet/discrete ("...draw a discrete veil over that part of history." )
drivel/dribble ("...I read quite a lot of their dribble, mind you." )
teemed/teamed ("... which had teamed with crowds on a chilly day last April..." )
Trump had free reign
(You are correct)
I'd say we may have the last laugh about Trump's "reign."
high!
...just now on a site called Grammarphobia. It lists both “walla” and “wallah” and attributes this to American ignorance of other languages.
Grammarphobia will be bookmarked at once.
