Picky reader

[ronbutters at AOL.COM]

Sounds fine to me either way, except purists would require "wife of THE comedian Jerry
Seinfeld"! What is wrong with "the comedian Jerry Seinfeld's wife"?

Your tongue is in your ear???

------Original Message------
From: Bonnie Taylor-Blake
Sender: American Dialect Society
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
ReplyTo: American Dialect Society
Sent: Oct 20, 2007 12:15 PM
Subject: [ADS-L] Picky reader

>From yesterday's *New York Times*:

"Jessica Seinfeld, the comedian Jerry Seinfeld's wife, has a hot best seller
with 'Deceptively Delicious,' a cookbook for parents of picky eaters."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/nyregion/19seinfeld.html

"[T]he comedian Jerry Seinfeld's wife" instead of "wife of comedian Jerry
Seinfeld"? Really?

The former leaves a bad taste in my ears.  What am I not getting?

-- Bonnie

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