| 词组 | tenant, tenet |
| 释义 | tenant, tenet Kilpatrick 1984 cites a newspaper article in which tenant, "occupant, land-holder," is mistakenly used in place of tenet, "principle, doctrine." This does not seem to be a common error, at least in published prose, but we find an example of it now and then: • One of the ancient tenants of the Buddist [sic] belief is, "He who sits still, wins" —Police, January/February 1968 Bolinger 1980 has seen the same error; he associates it with jargonistic writing. Here is his example: • Indeed this has been stated as an explicit tenant by Chomsky —Charles Goodwin, "The Interactive Construction of the Sentence Within the Turn at Talk in Natural Conversation," 1975 You will probably never make this mistake with tenant, but if you think you might, remember that tenant and occupant both end in -ant. |
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