glaring typo

[Benjamin Barrett]

tilted off the tracks?

On Nov 28, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Robert Hartwell Fiske wrote:

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> The correct word is careened. The train tilted. ... Not that many people
> observe this distinction.
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> In a message dated 11/28/2009 6:05:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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> Yeah,  looks right to me.
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> JL
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> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Benjamin  Barrett
> <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:
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>> My Mac dictionary has
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>> move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way  in a specified direction : the
> car
>> careered across the road and went  through a hedge.
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>> BB
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>> On Nov 28, 2009, at 2:25  PM, Kathleen M. Ward wrote:
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>>> Could this use of "career" be  an instance of the OED's second meaning
>>> for the verb, "to gallop,  run or move at full speed"?
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>>> On Nov 28, 2009, at 1:54 PM, David Barnhart wrote:
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>>>> Officials say three carriages of  the 14-car Nevsky Express,
>>>> travelling from
>>>> Moscow to St. Petersburg, careered off the tracks Friday night as
>>>> the train
>>>> approached speeds of 200 km/h in a rural  area.
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>>>> (http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/11/28/russia-derailment.html)
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