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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Found today in my proofreading:
... and all the best to the newly appointed SL who has taken the reigns of this large organisation.
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This is an Eggcorns Database classic; it has its own article here: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/34/reign/
Among the examples listed in the article is a citation from none other than W. B. Yeats.
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