The New York Times

[Duane Campbell]

>From today's NYT:

"Editors' Note

The Op-Ed page in some copies of Wednesday's newspaper carried an incorrect
version of the below article about military recruitment. The article also
briefly appeared on NYTimes.com before it was removed. The writer, an Army
reserve officer, did not say, "Imagine my surprise the other day when I
received orders to report to Fort Campbell, Ky., next Sunday," nor did he
characterize his recent call-up to active duty as the precursor to a
"surprise tour of Iraq." That language was added by an editor and was to
have been removed before the article was published. Because of a production
error, it was not. The Times regrets the error. A corrected version of the
article appears below.""



Aside from some curiosity about why a NYT editor would add text to a guest
editorial with the intent of removing it before publication, what bothers me
about this is the use of "below" as an adjective when it would be so simple
to move it one word forward and use it in a non-grating way. I check a
dictionary and found this usage down on the list, but does anyone else find
it really ugly?



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