Tuesday, June 4, 2013

track home/tract home: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Tuesday, June 4, 2013

track home/tract home
Commuters from a tract home may well feel that they are engaged in a rat race, but that does not justify them in describing their housing development as a “track.” “Tract” here means an area of land on which inexpensive and uniform houses have been built. Incidentally, note that the phrase is “digestive tract,” not “digestive track.”

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