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where people get shot more often than you might imagine.
As the hot days of summer continue, many of us will be drinking ice tea and ice water, and eating a good deal of ice cream. Ice what? As a language maven remarked in 1881, there technicalVyvis no such thing as ice cream. “What is called ice cream is • cream iced; hence, properly, iced cream and not ice cream. The product of melted ice is ice water, whether it be cold or warm; but water made cold with ice is iced water, and not ice water.” It’s something to think about.
In April, The Greenville (S.C.) News carried a story about a Japanese American scholarship program. Candidates “had to be rising seniors,” the better to distinguish them from sitting seniors. In the sense of “approaching a stated age,” the idiomatic “rising” dates from the 1770s.
Back in January, The New York Times carried an article in praise of phonics. The writer bemoaned the pathetic levels of literacy in the United States. “It didn’t use to be this way,” he said. He was idiomatically
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