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Saturday: January 12, 2008A Redundant SimileFiled under: — site admin @ 7:29 PM GMT-0500
Conrad Black writes of the New Hampshire primary: “The great oracular experts of the American media floundered like halibut.” Aren’t the last two words entirely superfluous, given that flounders and halibut are closely related and some species are called by both names? 2 Comments »RSS feed for comments on this post. Leave a comment |
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Then there are those who can’t keep the verbs “founder” and “flounder” straight.
Comment by steevil (Dr Weevil's bro Steve) — Sunday: January 13, 2008 @ 1:42 PM GMT-0500
That’s not so hard, so long as you recall that “founder” is the past comparative of “find” and “flounder” is the past comparative of, uh, “flind”.
Comment by old maltese — Saturday: January 19, 2008 @ 4:19 PM GMT-0500