Students lamenting the division of their schools into snobbish factions often misspell “clique” as “click.” In the original French, clique was synonymous with claque—an organized group of supporters at a theatrical event who tried to prompt positive audience response by clapping enthusiastically.
This is the ten-year anniversary of the Common Errors in English Usage calendar. To celebrate, we are bringing back some of our favorite interesting, funny, but sometimes merely silly entries through the years before going on hiatus in 2016.
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