[Magdalen] Fwd: Whither to lie and to lay?

Jay Weigel jay.weigel at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 13:08:50 UTC 2016


It all started with "at this point in time". AUGHHHHHHHHHH!

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm glad our company's style manual agrees with you!
>
> I fear today will be another ultra-long day of fixing "We have the
> capability to..." Um, you mean, "We can"?
>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 5:50 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I nearly got fired from an editing job (at a Cambrisge architectural
> firm)
> > when I insisted that "impact" was not a verb.
>
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> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>


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