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#1 2007-08-08 16:22:47

klakritz
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From: Winchester Massachusetts
Registered: 2005-10-25
Posts: 674

'rewised' for 'revised'

It’s hard to imagine a native speaker of English making this substitutiion, but it does show up over 2,000 times. And it makes a certain amount of sense- you revise your work when you get wiser. Examples:

I guess I’ll save the summary for the year end post Instead of sitting here and mourning for what cant be rewised (and I don’t want to rewise it either. ...
lonelystar.blogsome.com/2006/10/05/

In 1999 the law was rewised by the expert’s group in order to eliminate or limit all compulsory measures and emphasize the importance of HIV/AIDS prevention …
aids.gol.ge/history.htm

... take all the new things that has turned up into consideration – then its time to go for a new cycle of planning and a rewised strategy to keep moving.
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Teachers’_Toolbox/Teaching_skills_to_the_students

Hello All, I rewised my initial wording of the local law section of our initial report to reflect the changes made by Steve.
gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/dow2tf/msg00277.html

The 1st of October 2004 marks the operating start for the rewised internet presentation of the company INTEC TIV.
www.intectiv.si/events.php

I belive their is a rewised edition out but i am not sure.
forum.discusnews.com/discus-sion/viewtopic.php?p=56593&sid=f041f3a551db70c9761b6bc711f45f28

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