[Vocabulary] native speakers make mistakes too

[kingtravel3]

A different reporter mixed up -ty and -teen and reported that flood waters might rise 90 metres instead of 19 meters.

 

[Rover_KE]

Welcome to the forum.

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[Charlie Bernstein]

A different reporter mixed up -ty and -teen and reported that flood waters might rise 90 metres instead of 19 meters.

Different than what?

 

[probus]

Do you make mistakes when speaking your native language? How often? What sort of mistakes do you make? Who decides that you made a mistake?

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Looks like Kingtravel isn't tracking. Are you there, Kingtravel?

 

[probus]

Looks like he's gone walkabout.

 

[alexpen]

A different reporter mixed up -ty and -teen and reported that flood waters might rise 90 metres instead of 19 meters.

Maybe, you just heard it so, as the reporter did not stress the last syllable.