That’s a really interesting assertion. Source?
strongpoint
strongpoint
Pilot’s fault. He was ghost-riding the Ghostrider.
He’s been this way ever since he left for 538.
Sure I do; that’s why people pay me to use my facility with it. Your comments lead me to believe that you don’t really understand what an editor does, or what informs the assessments and decisions that an editor makes, but that’s not really important. It’s been fun!
Ok, so we’ve established, yet again, that you don’t know how language works.
The expression has changed and now uses a different word.
It lives on in a commonly used expression (when spelled properly), so by definition it isn’t dead.
Cool story, bro.
Most of us who are not entitled snobs recognize dessert as a sweet delicious reward - certainly enough for it to make sense in this colloquialism.
Desert does still mean “something to be deserved,” in the narrow context of that particular phrase.
Only among those who don’t care about getting shit correct. You’re probably the kind of person who treats media as a singular in formal contexts.
Didn’t see you’d replied below. This is me not rubbing it in.
Can’t, or won’t? Are we talking blood relatives or his in-laws?
s/discretely/discreetly
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“[S]tarting gay end”?
Carson’s Comedy Classics
A Facebook post from the excellent Testy Copy Editors blog: