[Ads-l] "Go pear-shaped"

[Mark Mandel]

It's probably best to put a newline before any URL you're inserting
literally in mail. The below got me to

http://en.wordpress.com/typo/?subdomain=ritishisms

which said, quite reasonably,

ritishisms.wordpress.com doesn’t exist


On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Yagoda, Ben <byagoda at udel.edu> wrote:

> I wrote about "go pear-shaped" as a "Not One-Off Britishism" here:
> *http://b <http://b>= ritishisms.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/go-pear-shaped/
> <http://ritishisms.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/go-pear-shaped/>*
>

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