A Correction

In an earlier post, I quoted the late Edwin Newman, when I said that something "buggers the mind."

It's from his book, Strictly Speaking, Will America be the death of English?

The quote is accurate, but the reports of Mr. Newman's demise, to quote Mark Twain,^* "Are greatly exaggerated."

He is 90 years old, and still very much alive.

^*Who actually is dead.