Mangled meanings: Are you saying what you really want to say?
Some words fall trippingly off the tongue; others, carelessly strewn, provide a tripping hazard for editors and other professional nitpickers.
By Rob Reinalda | Posted: January 23, 2013
The other day, a colleague wrote that something or other would “reap havoc.” I postulated that months before, one must have sown the seeds of discord. The harvest would call for a grim reaper. That’s the result of simply mishearing “wreak havoc,” of course, but there is a bumper crop of misused (or at least unclear) terms that sprout like weeds in the vernacular. It’s time to root them out. Grab your trowel, and let's go. Quality For some reason, “quality
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