Doing badly what should not be attempted?

[Joel S. Berson]

Doesn't make it wrong, either.  Google hits for the full quotation
with "hinder", about 37.  With "hind", about 91.  How many of the
latter are due to an editor's having modernized usage?  And
samueljohnson.com has both--apparently the same j(ack) lynch whose
name is attached to the Rutgers page with "hinder".

I was just pointing out a difference of opinion; I don't know what
the authorized version is.  (And it's irrelevant to my needs.)

Joel

At 9/11/2006 01:23 PM, you wrote:
>On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
>>Thanks; this is (close to) the original, as also provided by a
>>correspondent on another list.  I only note that Rutgers --
>>http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/BLJ/blj63.html -- has "hind"
>>instead of "hinder".
>
>Yeah, there are 161 hits on the Web with "hind," including
>samueljohnson.com and the leading encyclopedia of our time.  Doesn't make
>it correct.
>
>Fred Shapiro
>
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