Daily Archives Saturday, November 2008

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Answer me this: my spell check (Microsoft Word, Office 95. I’m writing on a laptop that is woefully outdated — a 486 machine with no CD-ROM) tells me TV is spelled capitalized, but with no periods. How did that happen? How did it turn from an abbreviation into an acronym? The invention, TV itself, really [...]

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“On a plane . . . on a plain . . . “