homo-what-now?
Here's a word I always misspell, as do many, many economists:
[Note the usage distinction between homogenEous and homogenous.]
Just to be clear: I believe I have never once in my entire life spelled this word correctly, since spell-checker never alerted me to the fact that I was using an entirely different word.
[Note the usage distinction between homogenEous and homogenous.]
Just to be clear: I believe I have never once in my entire life spelled this word correctly, since spell-checker never alerted me to the fact that I was using an entirely different word.
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Also not to be confused with homogenius- a gay Nobel laureate.
Here's my theory as to how this mistake got started. The misspelling of "homogeneous" as "homogenous" (when people hardly ever mean homogenous in the biological sense) is probably the result of the mispronunciation rather than vice versa; and the mispronunciation may in turn be the result of the fact that people usually learn the word "homogenized" before they learn the word "homogeneous," and so they pronounce it similarly.
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