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Chris -- 2025-05-10
This is so common that people must be learning the incorrect form first. I’ve heard it twice from CNN television correspondents. I think of it as an eggcorn because I believe people are relating the sense of “abstaining” to it.
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i know this is an old topic, but I’m currently embroiled in an argument about it. Is absTentia incorrect?
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