It is not uncommon to receive a packet of pages to cut and
paste, add or delete, into an aircraft manual for documenting changes. I was surprised, however, when I recently
receive the following cut and paste changes, not for a manual, but for my
dictionary. Oh well, changes made.
2013 Change 1
Page 644, top of column 2, Insert
Irony I•ro•ny (ahy-ruh-nee) noun, plural ironies
6. The
Associated Press covering the story about how you should “trust big government,”
while getting their phones tapped. (I can’t help but giggle on this one)
6a. The excuse that tapping the AP phones was a
matter of national security and lives were at stake while the phone from the
embassy mission in Benghazi is calling on 9/11/12.
7.
The
concept that people have to be laid off for days, planes delayed, national
parks closed, and tours halted because a budget didn’t increase.
Page 842, bottom of column 1, Cut and Replace
Oxymoron ox•y•mor•ons (ok-si-mawr-on)
noun plural oxymora
a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly
self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness,” “to make haste slowly,” “military
intelligence,” “transparent government,” “jobs council,” “Justice department,” “fair
share,” or ”Democratic leadership.”
Page 1259, Column 2, Add
Undocumented Worker un•doc•u•ment•ed work•er (ih-lee-guh
l ey-lee-uh n)
AP slang. See illegal alien.
No comments:
Post a Comment