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manage and manager (or <strike>mange</strike> and <strike>manger</strike>)

A typing mistake that the spellchecker will not notice is a missing second '-a-' in '''manage''' and some of its related words. The spellchecker will notice that <strike>'''mangement</strike>''' and <strike>'''manging</strike>'''<strike> </strike>etc are wrong, because there are no such words in English. 

However, '''mange '''and '''manger '''<u>are</u> legitimate words (if rare in academic English), which may surprise some, particularly if English is not their native language. 

'''mange''' is a skin disease. Many animals with hairy or woolly skins have '''mange'''. (It gives us the slangy insult 'mangy', similar in meaning to 'lousy' and 'scabby', etc, with a general sense of being 'unpleasant to look at', or 'uncomfortable'.)  Academics other than vets are unlikely to need this word.

A '''manger''' is a rack in which farmers keep food (mostly hay) for animals (mostly cattle and horses). The Christian Bible tells that when Jesus was born in a poor stable, he was laid in a '''manger''', and this is commonly mentioned at Christmas. There is a carol (a form of religious song) called ''Away in a Manger''. Academics are more likely to want the word '''manage '''

(Two other words that I have seen as typing errors are:

'''manege''' or '''man&egrave;ge''', a French word used in horse-riding circles. It is to do with training horses - managing them, in effect - to carry out complex movements.

'''menage''', a French word (sometimes written with an accent, '''m&epsilon;nage) '''which has been adopted in English to mean a household establishment, or the domestic management of a house. It gives rise to '''menagerie''', or collection of living animals - rather like a zoo.)