Wednesday, October 26, 2011

At the track

Found online: Johnson’s car passed inspection after the race at the track.

 Why state the obvious? Where else would the race be?

Johnson’s car passed inspection after the race.

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Small oops

Minor edit: This is part of a sentence from a press release -- ... take over the reigns as crew chief... That ought to be reins, not reigns.

 Another edit: Here's part of a story found online -- ... whom Washington drafted in the sixth-round out of Penn State. You don't need the hyphen unless you say he was a sixth-round draft pick. Otherwise, sixth round will do.

 Bothers me: Here's a sentence just found online -- It's unclear if compensation would be owed to the Pittsburgh Steelers should Cowher took a job with another team.

 I'd change it this way:

 It's unclear if compensation would be owed to the Pittsburgh Steelers if Cowher takes a job with another team.

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Monday, October 24, 2011

A great line

I'm not a fan of the Buffalo Bills, but I was impressed when Sports Illustrated's Peter King compared former quarterback Jim Kelly and the recently deceased center Kent Hull.

"Kelly was (Charles) Lindbergh, and Hull the airplane mechanic," King wrote.

That meant, of course, that Hull preferred to remain anonymous, and that was a great way to say it.

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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Your namesake

The recent newsletter for the American Copy Editors Society explains the word "namesake."

A namesake is a person or thing named after someone or something else:
RIGHT: Stephan Pyles ate in his namesake restaurant.
WRONG: The restaurant Stephan Pyles was visited by its namesake owner.
The person providing the name is the eponym, not the namesake (I looked it up).

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