"Plume in his vestments"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 5/15/2009 01:24 PM, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>My guess: it's a Cupertino (spellchecker-enabled miscorrection). If
>the writer originally had "plumet" for "plummet", it could have been
>miscorrected to "plume".

I checked this with MS Word, and the first suggestion for "plumet" is
"plummet".  "plume" is the third.

No response from Wesley Morris yet, as to what he intended.

Joel

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