# Words one can get confused

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**Created:** [September 18, 2022, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-one-can-get-confused/971772 "2022-09-18T20:10:31Z")\
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‘Rein’ and ‘reign’. The thing that controls a horse can be confused with the idea of controlling a kingdom. Some people might confuse ‘rain’ with those words but that’s just poor spelling which is probably the most common reason ‘rein’ is written instead of ‘reign’ with it’s tricky useless ‘g’.

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