Saturday, August 17, 2013

Things that burn me up.

An incinerator is a furnace.  Comments designed to start a conflagration of passions are called incendiary, not incindiary. You would think that experienced newsmen who often deal with incendiary conflicts would know this. But many of them don't. To name just one: Ryan Owens on the ABC News last night. But then ABC News, while the best evening news, is notorious for inadequate grammar and pronunciation. As I have said before Diane Sawyer turns every two-syllable word into three syllables, and now David Muir is following suit. Last night he spoke of people huddeling together. My dictionary seems to feel that huddling is a two-syllable word.

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