From the article:
Under the tenants of the final nuclear deal reached this week in Vienna, only countries with normal diplomatic relations with Iran will be permitted to participate in inspections teams organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
See that? It is tenets. Tenants live in rented houses. Spell check is no excuse for the wrong word.
Who does THAT include? North Korea? Syria? Venezuela?
Well, at least Cubans can be on the inspection teams,
that’s something.....says Obama.
See that? It's tenets. Tenants live in rented houses.
Normal relations with Iran = Iran’s allies = Russia.
Any congress moron that votes for this deserves to be shot, literally.
tenet: noun 1. any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.
tenant: noun 1. a person or group that rents and occupies land, a house, an office, or the like, from another for a period of time; lessee. 2. Law. a person who holds or possesses for a time lands, tenements, or personalty of another, usually for rent. 3. an occupant or inhabitant of any place. verb (used with object) 4. to hold or occupy as a tenant; dwell in; inhabit. verb (used without object) 5. to dwell or live (usually followed by in).
It drives me a bit batty to see 4th graders writing for so many news organizations. I hear morons like Jeh Johnson get it wrong all the time too, which is more aggravating since he shows to the whole world the level of illiteracy and intellectual laziness this country seems to bask in.
Pronunciation note The word tenet , defined here, should not be hard to pronounce. For speakers of American English, say the number ten, then add the pronoun it , and you have tenet , pronounced (ten ʹ it). Unfortunately, there is a similar-looking and similar-sounding word in English that is much more common—the word tenant , meaning someone who rents and occupies an apartment, office, etc. This word is pronounced (ten ʹ ənt), and its pronunciation is frequently used in error by people who intend to say tenet . Because both words involve sequences of the same letters t and n —both of which are pronounced with the tongue in the same place, touching the upper palate—it is easy for the extra n of the more common word tenant to creep into the pronunciation of tenet . With care, one can learn to pronounce these two words differently and appropriately.
Under the tenants of the final nuclear deal reached this week in Vienna, only countries with normal diplomatic relations with Iran will be permitted to participate in inspections teams organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
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Obama and Kerry: Have they been lying to us about the agreement all along?
Obama and Kerry: Were they outplayed, but they didn't know it?
Did the article actually say “tenants”?
Grammar police— the writer surely does not mean “under the tenants of the final nuclear deal reached.....”
but rather the word “tenets”. Tells us alot about the writer’s grasp of what is said where.