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.
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.
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.
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