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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Prompted by the Metafilter thread “Canada reigns in Facebook” [1]
[1] http://www.metafilter.com/84540/Canada- … n-Facebook
I wonder whether we’ll see more use of “reign in” for “place limits on.” This is probably just a ‘braino,’ though; I haven’t been able to find another example.
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will wrote:
This is probably just a ‘braino,’ though; I haven’t been able to find another example.
The consensus around the Database is that reign for rein (as in free reign and reign in) is a “nearly mainstream” eggcorn. See examples and links to related analyses there.
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And here’s an example of another variation I just encountered:
This music is from a very eclectic period in the 1960’s – 1970’s where some bands had free reign of the studio.
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