Oh great. It wasn’t bad enough that every hack headline writer forced to slap a four-word précis on an article they didn’t understand has been using this bromide to bludgeon creativity into a senseless mess for years, now some kind of institution that claims to have expertise about language has elevated this linguistic turd by declaring it the one-millionth word in the English language.
If you have to be convinced of the dubiousness of this “institution’s” claims of expertise, you might want to
Published on June 11, 2009 06:40