Can bad language punditry be stopped? Can false attributions for classic quotes be fixed?

Posted Wednesday July 30, 2008, 11:18 pm, Over one day old

There?s a laxness?an insufficient intellectual rigor?where it comes to language commentary, even by some of our media colleagues who should know better. In word origins in particular, my colleagues are debunking old stories by the page-fulls, so you can?t just keep quoting the same few books.

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