NPR (was Overheard on the local FOX news)

[Amy West]

I spotted that one as well. There were a bunch of links to other
language stories from the Barking Dog one. I haven't listened to it
yet. I plan to make use of these next fall, though.)

---Amy West

>Date:    Tue, 5 Dec 2006 12:41:59 -0600
>From:    Matthew Gordon <gordonmj at MISSOURI.EDU>
>Subject: NPR (was Overheard on the local FOX news)
>
>If you really want prescriptivist ignorance from NPR, you might check out
>this essay by Nora Raum:
>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6572655
>She notes her disagreement with liberal dictionaries that don't support her
>sense of "massive" and "decimate".

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