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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 29 Sep 2017

    Free rein or free reign? Both make sense, but only one is right. The American Heritage Dictionary knows.https://tmblr.co/Z4OIzt2QSH0f6 

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      2. Bill Dortch‏ @BillDortch 29 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @tumblr

        Free rain. Because we all get thirsty sometimes.

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      3. Peter Nosko‏ @PNosko 29 Sep 2017
        Replying to @BillDortch @sapinker @tumblr

        In some states, it's still illegal to capture and store rainwater. So it's not really free there.

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      4. Wicked Squirrel‏ @squirrel_wicked 30 Sep 2017
        Replying to @PNosko @BillDortch and

        Hence the need for free rain

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      1. götchya pröduktos‏ @gotchyaprod 29 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Could use some free rain here in Southern #Alberta!

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      1. Jim Frank‏ @jimfrank 29 Sep 2017
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        Anyone with horse sense knows it's free rein.

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      2. Alice G‏ @algrada 30 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Good lord, this is elementary. Rein is the word. When did we get so illiterate?

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      1. Kim Campbell‏Verified account @AKimCampbell 29 Sep 2017
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        Rein- it's an equestrian metaphor!

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      1. Elizabeth‏ @ElizMB 29 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        I reign in this household. My kids get free rein.

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      1. Joe Schmo‏ @schmofnjoe 29 Sep 2017
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        Without looking, free rein.

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      1. Kathryn I. Wallace‏ @k8iekat 29 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Reined that one in!

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      1. Steven Flinn‏ @stevenflinn 29 Sep 2017
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        There ain't no such thing as a free reign

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      1. Ryan Stolier‏ @rystoli 29 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Well if 'free reign' semantically makes sense as a diff expression, & is common, maybe, accidentally, we just have a new English expression?

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      1. Benoit Cambron‏ @benoit_cambron 29 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        My pet peeve is boarder / border.

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      1. matt stanbridge‏ @mattstanbridge 2 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        In the Oxford English dictionary under 'reign' The correct idiomatic phrase is a free rein, not a free reign; see rein

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      1. ParadoX‏ @UnC0mm0nGr0und 30 Sep 2017
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        #FreeRayne

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      1. thatdavidcolman‏ @thatdavidcolman 30 Sep 2017
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        Yes — but someone should explain the difference to our current unpleasident

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