Discreet/discrete

[IloveJudgeJudy]

I can't hold back any longer. More and more posters on this site keep writing "discrete" when they mean "discreet". Please desist. That is all.

Here, here!

Love that!

:)

so its okay to blurb out everything so long as you do it without any natural pause. - it is only giving away one secret at a time that it an absolute no no

Liking both the sentiment and the name, ditto! :o

Someone on here had a way of remembering the difference between them. It can't be all that good because I've forgotten it, but I do recall that it involved concrete.

I've just complimented a poster on her effortlessly correct use of the word!

I found put today, DH uses " , and". It's still with me.

Oooh, a proponent of "eats, shoots, and leaves"!

I have seen a pun involving these. It was a poster for a software product called 'quanta'; the picture was a cartoon of a shifty-looking spy with the caption 'be discrete, use quanta'

Oh, and of course in similar vein there's the more obvious 'Quantum mechanics do it discretely'.