According to Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, "diffuse" means to pour in different directions, spread out, not concentrated, using more words than are needed, wordy, long-winded, or to scatter.
The word that should have been used in image two's description is "defuse," to remove the fuse from a bomb or similar device, to render harmless.
C'mon youse guys! Youse is sposed to be teknicul riters!
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Srsly! We know how it works. The brain types using our main lexicon, which was built using spoken data, it only goes to the "writing" lexicon when there's a serious mismatch, or when some habit is triggered. So, in typing we swap around homophonic or near-homophonic pairs a lot.
And machine spelling checkers don't pick up on them because they're not misspelled words.
Anyway, pointing out the error is fine, but lets not get too excited, shall we?
And machine spelling checkers don't pick up on them because they're not misspelled words.
Anyway, pointing out the error is fine, but lets not get too excited, shall we?
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