I think when that article was written there were still MANY. MANY people from the 19th century alive and well and maybe even working as copy editors.https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2016/11/tract-track.html wrote:... For instance, during the 16th to 19th centuries “tract” was sometimes used to mean a path, route, or course of action. This usage is now rare or obsolete, the OED says, and the meaning is “usually expressed by track.”
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