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From Barbara Wallraff's Word Court, the "language question or dispute" column of The Atlantic (Sept. 2008):

DEL of Orlando, Fla.: "I am a retired librarian and occasionally, out of curiosity, look at Internet personals sites. It seems that most of the time people who want a discreet meeting say they want a discrete meeting. Webster's New World Dictionary, under discrete, does say in a note, '(see discreet),' but the definitions it gives--'separate and distinct'--are not what people are trying to communicate in their ads. Why the confusion in usage?"

WC: "Most visitors to personals sites aren't there to meet good spellers. Nonetheless...."