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Taking Things Literally
Posted by Administrator on February 1, 2010 in Editorial Musings
Sometimes editors (and others) can be unimaginative, boring old coots. I was reminded of this uncomfortable fact just moments ago as I was leafing through Miss Thistlebottom’s Hobgoblins (by Theodore M. Bernstein). My little eye fell upon the entry for “land on water,” an innocent and useful phrase that has apparently induced apoplectic fits in [...]