Another one: torturous vs. tortuous. Every time I read about “torturous reasoning,” I wince. Though when I read some liberal talking points, the reasoning does seem torturous to me... but I’m pretty sure that is not what is intended.
You know what comes next. The person wrote back, "But they're both equal in Webster 11" (the current abridged).
It's okay to continue to spell "goodbye" with a hyphen, according to these "lexicographers," which nobody does but the people who put the M-W abridged together, yet every mistake is immediately enshrined between the hated red covers.
Book copyeditors have to use this dictionary, just so we'll all be using the same one, and it could be worse.