Monday, 16 January 2012

Mandarino or Mandarini?

While most of the article refers to the subject of the article as Mandarino, he is once referred to as Mandarini.


Sunday, 1 January 2012

In tact or intact?

When something survives undamaged, whole, it is not "in tact" but "intact": http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/intact.html.


Which reminds me of another common error: people saying "taking a different tact".  The correct word in this usage is "tack", which is a nautical term for the direction a boat sails in relation to the wind.