Jim eats a big plate of crow over misplaced apostrophes and nonexistent contractions.
There are days I'd like to ask for a do-over. I know I'm not alone, but my bad days tend to be more embarrassing, given the nature of my work.
This time, it was a hastily written letter to readers on Monday that has me rethinking my career choice."I never would have imagined I'd be writing to you, of all people, concerning a grammar issue. Your article 'What -- and who -- shapes a front page' in today's edition is the matter in question," he wrote."Shouldn't ' ...
As for whether I should have written"the whole meeting" or"the entire meeting," I consider the two equally fine. To see what contemporary authors use, I plugged the two phrases into Google's Ngram Viewer."The whole meeting" was the dominant phrase in books until the end of World War I, when"the entire meeting" finally caught up. Ever since, they've been toe to toe, with a slight edge to"the entire meeting.
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