Excepted for publication

Language Log 2021-07-30

Summary:

I wrote to a colleague who helped me edit a paper that it had been accepted for publication.  She wrote back, "I’m glad it is excepted". Some may look upon such a typo as "garden variety", but I believe that it tells us something profoundly significant about the primacy of sound over shape, an issue […]

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Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

07/30/2021, 12:02

Date published:

07/30/2021, 03:07