Doing badly what should not be attempted?

[Fred Shapiro]

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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