Saturday, September 5, 2009

Tangled mess

Tangled web: If you like tangled sentences, you might check out Prepositions on the Loose on the NYTimes.com web site. Some of the examples are funny, and most aren't that easy to untangle.

Quash this: On Friday night, a newspaper writer said that a team managed to squash a rally. I changed it to quash; I doubt that they squashed anyone.

quash 2 (kwsh)
tr.v. quashed, quash·ing, quash·es
To put down or suppress forcibly and completely: quash a rebellion.
Contact: I can be reached at tgilli52@gmail.com or nc3022@yahoo.com. Also, my Twitter handle is EDITORatWORK.


Entries from The Dog Blog
Blog entries from The Auto Racing Journal
(a book of great stories about the Intimidator)
(the book of great NASCAR stories)

More blog entries by Tom Gillispie

Anecdotes by Tom Gillispie

No comments:

Post a Comment