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Maybe I'm only noticing because It's attracted my attention, but I am increasingly seeing people typoing "lightning" as "lightening."

The first is a discharge of natural electricity. The second is weight reduction or increasing illumination.

There was actually a cartoon about this in an aviation magazine several years ago. A dim-bulb pilot heard folks praising their "lightening" holes and decided to get some of his own by flying through a storm.

Date: 2014-01-12 12:37 am (UTC)
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First time I saw *that* goof was back in 74(?) in the first edition D&D rules.

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