glaring typo

[Jonathan Lighter]

So it's another trick question.  We can't tell what the writer intended,
except that the train went violently off the tracks.


JL

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> As it happens, "career" (v.) and "careen" were among the items in
> this year's poll of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel.
> We'll see eventually what my fellow panelists think about the need to
> maintain this particular distinction.
>
> LH
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> At 3:13 PM -0800 11/28/09, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
> >tilted off the tracks?
> >
> >On Nov 28, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Robert Hartwell Fiske wrote:
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> >>  The correct word is careened. The train tilted. ... Not that many
> people
> >>  observe this distinction.
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> >>  In a message dated 11/28/2009 6:05:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> >>  wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM writes:
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> >>  Yeah,  looks right to me.
> >>
> >>  JL
> >>
> >>  On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Benjamin  Barrett
> >>  <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:
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> >>>  My Mac dictionary has
> >>>
> >>>  move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way  in a specified direction :
> the
> >>  car
> >>>  careered across the road and went  through a hedge.
> >>>
> >>>  BB
> >>>
> >>>  On Nov 28, 2009, at 2:25  PM, Kathleen M. Ward wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>  Could this use of "career" be  an instance of the OED's second
> meaning
> >>>>  for the verb, "to gallop,  run or move at full speed"?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>  On Nov 28, 2009, at 1:54 PM, David Barnhart wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>  Officials say three carriages of  the 14-car Nevsky Express,
> >>>>>  travelling from
> >>>>>  Moscow to St. Petersburg, careered off the tracks Friday night as
> >>>>>  the train
> >>>>>  approached speeds of 200 km/h in a rural  area.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>  (http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/11/28/russia-derailment.html)
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