Friday, February 13, 2009

Language-cop Citations

The historian displayed the last loveletter from the "illiterate frontiersman." If he were illiterate, how did he write all those mushy letters?

By now, is there anyone on the planet who doesn't know that when an earthquake "measures six..." that's "...on the Richter scale"?

"Supernatural" is a nonsense word--if something occurs, it's natural.

Figure-skating commentator Dick Button performs a Double Lutz of a metaphor: "It was a wild roller-coaster of a merry-go-round!"

It's Merriam-, not "Miriam," Webster; it's Westminster, not "West Minister; it's corpus delicti, not "corpus dilecti" (and it has nothing, necessarily, to do with dead bodies).

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