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Principle or Principal?

I got one email, where the sender meant to say principle, but he wrote principal.

Principle is an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.

Principal is a chief or head.

I call this problem (using the wrong principle/principal) as similarly pronounced word typo.

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