Monday, August 22, 2005

A Correction and a Homage

The gentlest of SWNID's gentle readers, Mrs. SWNID, receives the coveted SWNID hat tip this morning. Twice in fact.

The first is for correcting SWNID's abuse of the nominative case in an earlier posting. SWNID confesses to having been wrong on this point but insists that this instance still amounts to "seldom wrong." The barbarism has been corrected.

The second is for noting that the phrase "gentle reader," SWNID's habitual form of address to fans, was shamelessly stolen from the stylebook of Judith Martin, the superb Miss Manners syndicated by the Washington Post.

But SWNID avers that this is not theft but homage. SWNID seeks to honor Miss Manners's deft sarcasm, which has made her column a delight for decades, though we cannot hope to attain her civility.

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