From a post to the NYT WRT the Higgs boson:

[Wilson Gray]

"Science has _given_ a very large step."

Shouldn't that be "_taken_ …"?

My dear wife has long been peeved by confusion between "*bring*" and
"take." Confusion between "*give*" and "take" may well  push her over
the edge - or should that be, "over _an_ edge"?
--
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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