Aliasing reigns → reins
Link to alias

Reason:

After checking the wiki, it seems that the reigns tag is a misspelling of the reins tag.

...has never ever done that mistake. Ever. Not even earlier today. Nope. Not at all. I did that this morning actually, so apparently it happens. It looks like a lot of different people occasionally type it this way, which makes it fairly common misspelling. And since the word "reigns" in it's actual ruling definition isn't likely to be taggable or useful as a tag (or even attempted very often) the misspelling is probably the only use it'll get. (If we ever did need to tag the "reigning" of someone as a concept, then a tag like "reigning" or "ruling" would probably be better anyways. Not that I can think of any instances off the top of my head where it would be appropriate or needed under twys in an image...)

So yeah, it's Approved.

I.. I thought that was how it was spelled D: I'm such a dolt.

Reminds me of when people say they are going on a strict dieting regime (should be regimen).

Tokaido said:
I.. I thought that was how it was spelled D: I'm such a dolt.

A Reign is the status of having power, and probably a useless tag. A Rein, however, is a sort of... steering rope, I guess.

Furrin_Gok said:
A Reign is the status of having power, and probably a useless tag. A Rein, however, is a sort of... steering rope, I guess.

It's also a type of deer.

Also technically the kidneys (i.e., renal), but that fell out of fashion for whatever reason.

Furrin_Gok said:
A Reign is the status of having power, and probably a useless tag. A Rein, however, is a sort of... steering rope, I guess.

Yes thank you, I know. I was confused on the spelling, not the definition.

Tokaido said:
Yes thank you, I know. I was confused on the spelling, not the definition.

If it makes you feel better, before I submitted the caribou -> reindeer alias, I had no idea that it wasn't spelled "raindeer".

parasprite said:
If it makes you feel better, before I submitted the caribou -> reindeer alias, I had no idea that it wasn't spelled "raindeer".

That spelling has always seemed really weird to me too XD

English is a strange language. I especially hate "gh" though, what sound does that make? Whatever sound you want it to apparently :P

Tokaido said:
That spelling has always seemed really weird to me too XD

English is a strange language. I especially hate "gh" though, what sound does that make? Whatever sound you want it to apparently :P

The "gh" historically actually refers to a sound that was once present in English, but is almost entirely eliminated in most dialects of modern English (and only for certain words). The sound is sort of as if you are trying to cough something up from the back of your throat (see "hiccough"). If you've heard the Scottish pronunciation at the end of "loch" (as opposed to the English way of pronouncing it like "lock") that's the sound (also "Bach" and Vincent Van Gogh in some British dialects).

Old English would pronounce words with this sound so "knight" sounded more like "kuh-ni(kh)t", "light" like "li(kh)t", and "ghost" sounded more like a phlegmier version of "host" (which is where the word "host" actually comes from by the way—a ghost is a guest/host that never leaves :o).

TLDR: We used to pronounce that with a sound, but English doesn't have that sound anymore so we just fill in the blank with whatever we have laying around...or just sort of pretend it doesn't exist.

parasprite said:
The "gh" historically actually refers to a sound that was once present in English, but is almost entirely eliminated in most dialects of modern English (and only for certain words). The sound is sort of as if you are trying to cough something up from the back of your throat (see "hiccough"). If you've heard the Scottish pronunciation at the end of "loch" (as opposed to the English way of pronouncing it like "lock") that's the sound (also "Bach" and Vincent Van Gogh in some British dialects).

Old English would pronounce words with this sound so "knight" sounded more like "kuh-ni(kh)t", "light" like "li(kh)t", and "ghost" sounded more like a phlegmier version of "host" (which is where the word "host" actually comes from by the way—a ghost is a guest/host that never leaves :o).

TLDR: We used to pronounce that with a sound, but English doesn't have that sound anymore so we just fill in the blank with whatever we have laying around...or just sort of pretend it doesn't exist.

We reeeaaaaaly need to push an update for english. It's like FurAffinity. It worked really well when it first came out, but it's so behind the times and bloated with old, unnecessary, and poorly handled code that it's actually getting WORSE with every little patch/hotfix they put out for it. Problem is that EVERYONE uses it and is so used to it that no one's willing to move to something better. And as much as I'd love to get a "2.0" version or something, it's probably never going to happen... Huh, that's a pretty fitting parallel actually.

Tokaido said:
We reeeaaaaaly need to push an update for english. It's like FurAffinity. It worked really well when it first came out, but it's so behind the times and bloated with old, unnecessary, and poorly handled code that it's actually getting WORSE with every little patch/hotfix they put out for it. Problem is that EVERYONE uses it and is so used to it that no one's willing to move to something better. And as much as I'd love to get a "2.0" version or something, it's probably never going to happen... Huh, that's a pretty fitting parallel actually.

Something something Windows.