Broadcast journalism

[Laurence Horn]

Safer just to *cry* havoc, just before letting slip the dogs of war.

LH

At 12:09 PM -0400 4/5/10, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>I could swear I heard Obama say "wrecked havoc" in one of his speeches
>last week.
>
>Yup! Sure enough, it was there:
>
>http://www.yelp.com/topic/san-francisco-obamas-choice-of-words
>http://www.maclife.com/forums/post/1724626
>
>Both start out with the same paragraph in the first post, but they
>diverge from there.
>
>The second one is more interesting. One detour gets into the "upper
>crust" pet peeve. Then the same poster (the one who started the thread
>in the first place) does a mea culpa because he finds that Webster lists
>pronunciation for both "wreck" and "wreak" as sometimes similar.
>
>And fun was had by all...
>
>     VS-)

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