December 01, 2005

Pedantry

Would the blogosphere (or blogtopia, and y!sctp!) please stop using "peddle" as though it meant "pedal?" If you quietly renounce something you'd previously stood for, you are backpedaling, not backpeddling. If you tone down your rhetoric about a specific issue, you're softpedaling, not softpeddling.

Grrrh.

Posted by Linkmeister at December 1, 2005 10:09 AM | TrackBack
Comments

You should read this guy: http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2005/12/lost_s02e09_wha.html#more

He seems to know stuff...real stuff.

Posted by: Karan at December 1, 2005 11:20 AM

Correct in the first case, wrong in the second.

Posted by: alwin at December 1, 2005 07:29 PM

Ahem. From dictionary.com:

softpedal:
2. Informal. To make less emphatic or obvious; play down: soft-pedal a potentially explosive issue

Posted by: Linkmeister at December 1, 2005 07:48 PM

sage advice. Or is that wrong to say?

Posted by: cassie-b at December 2, 2005 09:31 AM

Thymely, cassie-b, thymely. ;)

Posted by: Linkmeister at December 2, 2005 09:41 AM