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[–] themaninblack@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I completely agree with the message but had to snicker at “populous”.

[–] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago

Oopsie. Teacher needs to remember that populous & populace are two very different words 🤭

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

That I had to scroll this far down to see this is rather telling of the state of education.

[–] FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Please look up populous and populace.

Ooooh I see! I'm usually pretty good with these tricky homonyms but I didn't know about this one. Learn something new every day.