‘Hit and miss’? ‘Center around’? No, thanks.
Misused expressions can drive some people to drink. And for at least one reader, saying a wine is made from a grape “varietal” is just wrong. of Falls Church, Va., put it best: “I agree that a measure of humility is called for when correcting another’s usage,” she wrote. “That’s often when we slip on the banana peel.”
And yet here we are again, boldly striding across the floor of the banana packing plant. Why, Dalal herself even has a favorite — er, least favorite — language mistake. It’s an expression some people use: miss not having.Jeannette McConaughey Wrote Greg: “I blame the plutocrats for making ‘out of pocket’ sound cool so they never have to reimburse.”Advertisement
Wrote Daryl: “Let’s try to keep it for when we’re talking about earthquakes. And why should some centers be deemed more central than other centers, anyway?”“But now the use of ‘close proximity’ is so frequent I assume it’s acceptable,” he wrote. “But it still bugs me.”Alan admits that’s probably because he once included “close proximity” in a final paper, only to see it graded down from a B to a C.
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