Reading articles

First published in Column 8 on 31.10.90

A music canterbury
Source unknownNo doubt every reader of this column has come acrossarticles telling him/her How-to-do everything from catching a slimy mackerel tocarving a music canterbury.

(You can tell from that sentence that I’ve read an articleon How To Use Inclusive Language.)

Even writers’ magazines feature such articles, so that weget the absurdity of the How to Write a How-To Article.

You don’t believe me? Last the year the American maga...