Monday, February 23, 2009

This is really great

Have you ever seen or heard of a new word and then promptly forgot what it was? I figured out a path back to enlightenment for ye forgetful faithful. I saw a word in my dictionary yesterday that meant to remove errors and corruptions from text. I thought, "Now, that's a word that so applies to what I do." I'm an editor. Of course, I forgot the word the next day. Well, the Oxford English Dictionary online has an advanced feature that allows you to search definitions. Wouldn't you know it; I found the word that was really bugging me. It's a verb called emendate.

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