It just struck me that "various and sundry" is probably redundant. Speaking of which, I jotted down this sentence from an in-flight magazine last November, since it was such a nice example of sloppy writing. "Perhaps more than any other season, fall is the one we most associate with change." Take a moment to savor it. Can you taste the clash of "more" and "most"? (I should add that my own first drafts contain far greater horrors, and even my published works have phrases that make me shudder
Published on June 28, 2009 06:03