Maureen Dowd is hilarious today. Truly hilarious. Her column makes me think of the sister whose Grammar Police State I grew up in. As verbose as I am, I’m remarkably unastute when it comes to grammar. I generally handle grammar as I do most topics in this world (none of which I know much about, unless it’s Perez Hilton’s latest headline or Sharon Olds’ poetry): by being often wrong and never in doubt.
The best story about Hilary (other than the funny way she revealed that she pronounced cornucopia wrong – ahhh the sweet joy of knowing something that my little sister did not!!) is the Star Market story. She wrote a letter to the management of Star (this was some point in grade school, I am not sure exactly when) explaining the erroneous language on their “12 Items or Less” signs. Don’t know that we can draw a specific causal link, but I’ll note that the sign at my local Star (I cannot call it Shaws) now says “12 Items or Fewer”
Good article by Dowd. But did you notice in the very first sentence she used the word “done”? Only baked potatoes are “done”. If you accomplish a task–you are FINISHED!