rigor/vigor confusion

[Beverly Flanigan]

I heard the quote again this morning, so I agree that it must have been
read verbatim.  But I would have thought the NPR readers would have
tactfully noted as an aside that the writers must have meant
"rigor"--unless they didn't know the difference.

At 11:28 AM 9/21/2007, you wrote:
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>         The arbitration award is available at
>http://www.usantidoping.org/files/active/arbitration_rulings/Landis%20Fi
>nal%20%2820-09-07%29%20%283%29.pdf, and the quoted passage (from
>paragraph 311) is accurately quoted.  The majority arbitrators are
>Patrice Brunet, Attorney at Law, Chairman, and Prof. Richard H. McLaren,
>C.Arb., Barrister.  They appear to be Canadian.  I believe Brunet is a
>French-speaking lawyer in Quebec, so English may be his second language.
>Brunet was the chairman, so he may have written the award, but it is
>also possible that they split it up.
>
>         I don't know if "vigor" is an eggcorn or a typo, but either
>seems plausible.  Note that, in handwriting, lower-case r can look very
>like lower-case v (in which case this would be a write-o, I guess).
>
>
>John Baker
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>For the purposes of cutting and pasting, I ganked my quote from the Wall
>Street Journal online edition.
>I have not seen an official copy of the panel decision.
>
>Erik
>
>On Sep 20, 2007, at 10:12 PM, Beverly Flanigan wrote:
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> > I heard the report too, but I thought the phrase was just NPR's usual
> > inept reporter's goof.  Was this an actual quote from the panel's
> > report?  If so, the spelling of the noun "practises" is also
> > interesting.  Were the panel members L2 speaker/writers?
> >
> > At 09:28 PM 9/20/2007, you wrote:
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> >> Cyclist Floyd Landis, accused of doping violations in the 2005 Tour
> >> de France, received bad news today from an arbitration panel.  So it
> >> goes.
> >>
> >> What I found interesting was the apparent error in this phrase from
> >> the ruling:
> >>
> >> "The Panel finds that the practises of the Lab in training its
> >> employees appears to lack the vigor the Panel would expect in the
> >> circumstances given the enormous consequences to athletes..."
> >>
> >> Oops?
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