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it," said a spokesman. "They're getting their bottoms cleaned and making bets about whose boat will beat whose."
In addition to mangles ana tangles, we have the phenomenon of the dangle. This is a dangle, from a story about a Florida midwife: "After delivering more than 2,000 babies. Gov. Lawton Chiles inducted her into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame." The opening phrase was an orphan, poor thing, with no subject to come home to.
Or this one, in an AP story last month: "tom up in the Green Bay Packers' win over San Francisco in!a playoff game Saturday, groundskeepers are going to try to completely resod the grass for Sunday's NFC championship game." ;
All of them — mangles, tangles and dangles — are the consequence ef inattention. Read your copy one more time, and perhaps you will avoid a sentence such as this one, from a feature on buying a dog: "Miniature schnauzer and cocker spaniel owners are fantastically cute as infants, and develop aweinspiring barks as adults."
Moral: Reporters who don't pay attention risk awe-inspiring barks from an editor. Let's get on the ball!
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Universal Press Syndicate
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