This is the place where Richard Mateosian comments, sometimes nitpickingly, about questions of writing style, grammar, and vocabulary that occur to him as the words of others impinge upon his consciousness.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Tack vs tact
Tact: social gracefulness.
Tack: the direction of a ship's movement, or, metaphorically, an approach to a problem.
So when someons says they want to try a different tact, they probably mean tack.
1 comment:
Not to mention all the instances I've seen of late in which "intact" (as in, "not separated") appeared as "in tact".
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