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For Your Eyes Only
More singing tongues. Plus Clark’s grand trek. Dr. Dean’s procedures. And more.
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p>I would add to Mr. Collins’s list of journalistic mess-ups the
phrase, “to hone in” on something. One can “home in” on something
(i.e., track it down), or “hone” something (sharpen it), but one
can’t “hone in” on anything. This seems to have cropped up in the
last year or two.
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Bob Fitzgibbon
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Rome, New York
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I disagree. To say “I Only Have Eyes For You,” to mean I alone have
eyes for you, would equally be allowed only by poetic license.
Better would be, “Only I have eyes for you.” When I tell my wife or
mistress, “I only have eyes for you,” she correctly takes my
meaning to be that my other bodily organs all are otherwise
engaged.
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John Cortens
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Canada
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If I may be so bold as to propose a few additions to Mr. Collins’s “spot on” column: Co-conspirator; Someone taking part in a conspiracy is a conspirator. What exactly is a co-conspirator? Do the news anchors think that by adding an extra syllable they sound more intelligent?
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