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Rule "The principle (principal) will hold an assembly tomorrow"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: The principle (principal) will hold an assembly tomorrow
By default, this rule is not active in LanguageTool
Message: Did you mean to use "principal" here? "Principle" is a guiding rule/belief, and "principal" is an adjective meaning "main or most significant".
Category: Commonly Confused Words (ID: CONFUSED_WORDS)
Link: https://languagetool.org/insights/post/spelling-principal-vs-principle/
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • The constant arguing was the principle reason for our departure.
    Correction suggestion: principal
  • Carelessness is his principle feature.
    Correction suggestion: principal
  • That is the principle problem next to education.
    Correction suggestion: principal
  • What is the principle reason for going to school?
    Correction suggestion: principal
  • It's only the planet's principle democracy at stake.
    Correction suggestion: principal
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • Mika expressed our in principle interest in sponsoring a Japanese cultural event in Houston.
  • Principle 4: Independent assessment of impacts
  • In the case of two electrons occupying the same orbital, the Pauli principle demands that they have opposite spin.
  • As became even clearer later, the differences were over a series of matters of principle which, at that time, the Chinese seemed to maintain correct stands.
  • The current slogan of the party is "The Party of Principle".
  • In this work, Doppler postulated his principle (later coined the Doppler effect) that the observed frequency of a wave depends on the relative speed of the source and the observer, and he tried to use this concept for explaining the colour of binary stars.
  • Some churches use only a cappella music, either on principle (for example, many Churches of Christ object to the use of instruments in worship) or by tradition (as in Orthodoxy).
  • ...Q3 Leadership Principle Award for Comm...
  • ...of research.” Principle B: Fidelity an...
  • “Seperation of Concerns” is the principle I'm referring to here.
  • Based on our business principle discussion, Peggy and I are comfortable that this round of edits represents our mutual business intent.
ID: PRINCIPA_PRINCIPL [1]
Version: 6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-12-05 22:33:10 +0100)