# July is the longest month for mini-rants

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [July 1, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957 "2015-07-01T15:05:03Z")
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### Author: ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-is-the-longest-month-for-mini-rants/723957/505 "2015-07-31T19:35:14Z")

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> [@Finagle](#):
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> I give it another 10 years tops before the various dictionaries give up and start listing “breaks” as an alternative spelling of “brakes”. I’m not sure there’s a single Reddit contributor who knows how to spell “braking”, and the SDMB isn’t dramatically better. I don’t know if it’s spelling correction or just misspelling, but damn.

And _sight_ vs. _site_, or _four_ vs. _for_ vs. _fore_, or _to, too, two_, even _or_ vs. _oar_.

I wouldn’t care if I thought this would ever lead to a rational system of spelling for the English language – that would have those words that are pronounced the same spelled the same – but I don’t think this will do that.

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