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To: LindyBill who wrote (69763)	9/13/2004 9:27:23 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 793919

Not that any of you need it, but be aware that "The Elements of Style" is now online. About fifty posts ago, I noted and clipped the following errors, which appeared in quotes included in Kurtz's column. It seems to me that people having their quotes published ought to know better. I seem to recall that there was a time when publishers cleaned up quotes so as not to embarrass the speaker. I wonder what became of that practice. <<"If me and Dick Morris signed on to the Bush campaign tomorrow, the press would go crazy," Fox's Bill O'Reilly told viewers...>> <<"I don't think the media feel badly anymore covering 30-year-old wars or personal scandals," says Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist and press critic.>> As for "Charles' friend," that's the way I was taught. I remember it clearly. I learned only a few years ago that it either wasn't correct then or that the rules have since changed. EDIT: Just went back and changed a "that" to a "which" in this post. If we weren't talkin about grammar, I would have let the error go. <g>

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