I didn't know this alternative spelling for 'realign' existed until recently. Princeton's WordNet has it in their dictionary so I guess it's not that rare over on Amerike's continent. Any comments?
No big deal. Language changes. You pick up some new spellings from time to time.
However, even though I've never seen realine till today, it does give me an extra word now to play in Scrabble, so that's good. And it's a pretty easy way to increase your vocabularly by one word 'cause you know that both realign and realine are two words with the same meaning.
Thanks, belligerent, for giving us an easy word for this Friday's vocabulary quiz.
Since when did WordNet become god? It's just possible that Wordnet could goof, and I'd say they goofed here.
"Realine" gives only 1,860 google hits, which would make it rare indeed.
Even the 1,860 is a huge overstatement: the overwhelming majority are sites written in a foreign tongue. By eyeball guessimate, less than 50 of those hits are not in foreign language, or as proper nouns, or as cites of WordNet. It's the level of usage of a typo, not a word.
LOL!!! Nice one - we are going to get on well, you!
> Since when did WordNet become god?
I was by no means trying to imply that this, errr, version, should be included... I just figured that if it crept into WordNet then it could not be completely unheard of. I doubt whether we'll see it in OED anytime soon - put it that way! Thanks for the Google information (I guess I could have looked myself), that seems to clear up the question of how common it is. I guessed its usage might be more common among firm names or services, a la 'Nite-Lite', as are so common in the U.S.
Yep, me too. Why do we need a new spelling of "realign" (Scrabble excepted, WW ) ?
I keep finding I pronounce-read it as ree-uh-LEEN. Am I alone in this? With my pronunciation, perhaps the word could be reserved for use as an adjective by Virtual Reality artists: "Your world has certain realine qualities".
>With my pronunciation, perhaps the word could be reserved for use as an adjective by Virtual Reality artists: "Your world has certain realine qualities".
"realine is not in my dictionary, which I think means it is not at all widely used. "aline" is in my dictionary, and obviously people who use it will coin "realine" which perhaps ought to be "re-aline". I prefer "realign".
I was actually just looking for some synonyms for 'realign' while writing. Writing what, and why 'realign'? - Well, it's something I'd prefer not to just blurt out here, but it is in the realm of this text by A Guy Called Gerald:
The universe we mould around this one of a multi-dimensional speckles of reality resonates, or you could say it creates, an interference pattern within the fabric of space. If we were to look closely at an individual human being, We would find that the body is made up of a mass of resonating particles and is in itself a universe. All information exists here and now within our own consciousness. There are places we can go within our consciousness that unite our being with the cosmos. We need to align our minds with the cosmic mind, If we are going to find any of the purposes of our existence, Or find answers to some of the unexplained problems, Especially as we are heading towards one of the most important increments in the history of our time here.
Does that answer your question - or just throw open a whole lot more?