{"id":13415,"date":"2008-12-22T23:03:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T06:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/12\/22\/blame-it-on-the-reign.html"},"modified":"2008-12-22T23:03:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T06:03:32","slug":"blame_it_on_the_reign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/22\/blame_it_on_the_reign.html","title":{"rendered":"Blame it on the reign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As in inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/12\/ask_mister_language_person_1.php\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <em>rain: <\/em>precipitation, water falling down from the sky.<\/li>\n<li> <em>reign:&nbsp;<\/em> monarchical rule, act a state or as an action.<\/li>\n<li> <em>rein:&nbsp;<\/em> leads used to control a horse or other motive animal; the act of using such leads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A tyrant does not instigate a &#8220;rain of terror&#8221; &#8212; while metaphorically interesting, the actual term is <em><u>reign<\/u> of terror<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, someone does not re-exert control over a situation by &#8220;reigning someone in.&#8221; While understable, since it does&nbsp;reference some sort of domination, the actual term (if you stop to think about it) is to <em><u>rein<\/u> someone in<\/em>, like one would do a horse. The opposite, letting someone loose, is <em>to give free <u>rein<\/u> to <\/em>(letting loose of the reins of a horse).<\/p>\n<p>If I had a nickel for every time I saw these used incorrectly in a professional or respected blog or newspaper article, then I&#8217;d be able to buy coffee at Starbucks every day. Without that nickel, it&#8217;s simply intensely annoying.<\/p>\n<p>(The comments to the cited post include a variety of similar pet peeves.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As in inspired by this post: rain: precipitation, water falling down from the sky. reign:&nbsp; monarchical rule, act a state or as an action. rein:&nbsp; leads used to control a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132144,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/02\/reign-of-the-supermen.html","url_meta":{"origin":13415,"position":0},"title":"Reign of the Supermen","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 2-Dec-16 8:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"With Hank Henshaw -- the \"real\" Hank Henshaw -- showing up on Supergirl as \"Cyborg Superman\" (which sounds a lot dorkier just picked out of the ether), I had to stop a moment and explain to the family about the Reign of the Supermen, the four individuals claiming the mantle\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Reign-of-Supermen5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Reign-of-Supermen5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Reign-of-Supermen5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":293,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/07\/white_horse_bla.html","url_meta":{"origin":13415,"position":1},"title":"White horse, black eye","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-May-03 9:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Britain's Channel 4 was looking for someplace striking and noteworthy to put a logo for their Big Brother series, and hit upon a great idea -- paint it on the...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Business&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"Horse and Eye","src":"\/blog\/images\/uffington_bb.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":50636,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/08\/thats-what-makes-demonic-horse-races.html","url_meta":{"origin":13415,"position":2},"title":"That&#8217;s what makes demonic horse races","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-May-15 10:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"Mark Twain noted, \"It is not best that we should all think alike; it is differences of opinion that make horse races.\" (http:\/\/wist.info\/twain-mark\/3914\/). 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