elstaffe’s Reviews > The Revenge of Anguished English: More Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language > Status Update

“Conviction for manslaughter carries a penalty of 1 to 10 years in California” (167).

“Sign in a restaurant rest room: Employees must wash your hands” (162).

“Miss Giavollella had pleaded guilty to taking goods from Tesco Supermarket, to assaulting a policewoman, and to dishonestly handling a garden gnome” (152) umm

“Patients spend 10 to 16 weeks in the hospital from the time they are diagnosed to the time they die. We must get this down to 7 to 10 days. Practice nurses can make it happen” (151) just gotta believe in yourself

“I have a mind like a steel sieve” (147) sure do

“Let’s jump off that bridge when we come to it” (146) also going to use that

“You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t look in his mouth” (145) I want to start using this one

“Our shoe stores are featuring sneakers that are ideal for streetwalking.” (112)

“For some considerable time, the Times had been publishing the wrong tide times for Narooma. The error was discovered when the editor, relying on the Times figures, was swept out to sea. But he managed to return to shore and ordered this correction.” (110)

“We have learned that the obituary for Erik Humphrey Gordon, 95, which appeared in the July—August issue, was based on false information by the subject himself in an effort to get off Harvard’s mailing list. Mr. Gordon is alive and well and living in New York City” (110).