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Usage of read (read sneak as speak. vs read speak for sneak.)



 
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Usage of read (read sneak as speak. vs read speak for sneak.) #1 (permalink) Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:24 am   Usage of read (read sneak as speak. vs read speak for sneak.)
 

You compose an email and send it out to a group of people. Later, you realize that you have wrongly spelt a word (speak as sneak).

What would you say in such a situation? Are the following sentences OK?

1) Please read sneak as speak.
2) Please read speak for sneak.
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Usage of read (read sneak as speak. vs read speak for sneak.) #2 (permalink) Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:37 am   Usage of read (read sneak as speak. vs read speak for sneak.)
 

I would go with 1.
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