Today promises to be a frazzler, and anyway, all I have at the moment is this:
- When we speak of whether a thing is legal, we are discussing its legality.
- When we say that a man is frugal, we are noting his frugality.
- And when we describe a condition as normal...
Hint, hint! It’s not “normalcy.”
(Warren G. Harding was a better president than many suppose, but as a speaker of English...well, he was a much better president.)
I’ll probably be back later with something more substantial.
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Warren G. Harding, spiritual godfather to Dubbya in so many ways, and their joint tortures of their mother tongue, is a dual biography just waiting to be penned.
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