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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The sight/site/cite confusion has been discussed here among other places. Here’s an example I recently encountered of another variation (which I assume is a common one):
Can you site the statistical evidence on this?
This seems eggcornish, because people may think of “siting” a reference as directing someone to its location or site.
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