Heard on the Judges

[James Harbeck]

>Google has a mere 45 instances of "ramping ...," but one of them is
>from _The Mystery of Edwin Drood_ by Charles Dickens: "Swaggering
>fighting men had had their centuries of _ramping_ and raving ..."
>
>Who knew that this "error," if it is such, had such an impressive pedigree?

It's rampant, in fact!

James Harbeck.

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