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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The New York Times’s announcement of the retirement of its op-ed page may have surprised people (as it did me) that “op-ed” is not a slangy way of saying “opinion-editorial.” It actually means “opposite the editorial page.” A stealth-eggcorn for many, I would think.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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It was for me, though it is not a word I have used often, even passively.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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