Saturday, August 31, 2002

Blair Unsure on Right Iraq Tact
 
AAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!! Where do these people come from? It would be nice if they had a passing acquaintance with the English language! The above headline comes to us courtesy of Netscape's "Top News" feature. Obviously, what the poor being who wrote that headline meant was "tack" (to reverse, change or modify abruptly one's ideas, conduct, or attitude).
 
One would think that some editor would have caught this, but it was probably only run through the spell checker which would have passed "tact" as a perfectly good (albeit inappropriate) word.

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