April 03, 2005

Language Notes

You keep using that word,” Inigo Montoya famously says in The Princess Bride, “I do not think it means what you think it means."

I have corrected two posts which featured calls for "extirpation," Merriam Webster definitions for which include "to pull out by the root" or "to remove surgically." The word I was aiming for was "extubation," or ummm well "to remove a tube."

The posts have been corrected and Tat Ergo Sum regrets the error.

Posted by jk at April 3, 2005 07:41 PM
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