Fwd: Safire

[Grant Barrett]

Triple your irony if you note my spurious "the."

I should acknowledge that those sorts of mistakes--the ones the Times
has made--happen just about everywhere to just about everyone. I
think every post I've made to ADS-L for the last eight years has had
a typo or other error in it.

Garnt Barrrettt
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org

Begin forwarded message:
> The most ironic thing about the column, which is about getting
> basics like names right, is that the Jaimie Epstein's name is
> misspelled in the byline and on the page header as "Jaimie
> Esptein." It's right in the bio line, however.
>
> Double your irony intake: she says she is "a sometime editor of
> this column."

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