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Discreet v. discrete ? an easy way to remember which is which

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Daily Writing Tips has a post today about the homonyms discreet and discrete. Discreet means careful and circumspect in one?s speech. Discrete means individually separate and distinct.

When using either word, I?ve always had to pull out the dictionary, because I can never remember which spelling goes with which meaning. But today I came up with this memory aid: When referring to two things that are individually separate, choose the spelling where the two e's are separated.

Full post as published by Minor Wisdom on September 08, 2010 (boomark / email).

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