Thursday, September 29, 2022

LANDFALL IN FLORIDA

FOUND ON TWITTER: After having already made a landfall in Florida, AccuWeather meteorologists say that #Ian is likely to come ashore once again a bit farther north on Friday

It sounds like meteorologists made landfall in Florida. And the sentence is unnecessarily redundant.

Possible edit: AccuWeather meteorologists say that #Ian is likely to make a second landfall a bit farther north on Friday

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Tuesday, September 27, 2022

ALUMNI, ALUMNUS and ALUMNA

FOUND ONLINE: She is a 2015 CRC Alumni.

She's a CRC alumna (female) or alumnus (generic). Alumni is plural.

FOUND ON TWITTER: Hurricane Ian closes in on Florida, targets Gulf Coast for landfall

Edit: Hurricane Ian closes in on Gulf Coast of Florida

FOUND ONLINE: A dazzling spiral galaxy has been captured in "unprecedented detail" in a new photo released by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. 

I can't imagine the telescope actually releasing the photo. I suspect that NASA would have to do that.

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(the book of great NASCAR stories)