Word of the week: blithely. Webster's New College World defines it as showing a cheerful, carefree disposition; lighthearted, with an origin of ME < OE; ult. < IE base *bhlei-, to shine, gleam. Merriam-Webster says it has origins in Middle English, from Old English blīthe; akin to Old High German blīdi joyous. The writer uses the word in a lede about the manner in which one receives a text message. However, this one is not very blithely after all. I have a friend named Blythe so the word caught my eye.
Catch of the week: miniscule. "It's miniscule and he will recover," Lewis said.
Per AP, the word is always used as minuscule, not miniscule.
Headline of the week: Gators fail to clinch SEC, lose to Wildcats. First of all, I understand what our online editor was thinking when he wrote this headline. But the fact that the Gators lost should be first, because they can't fail to clinch the SEC without losing. I would simply rewrite this as, "Gators lose to Wildcats, fail to clinch SEC."
Passage of the week: From the Alligator's one and only, Bill O'Connor:
Since Vietnam, I’ve had no qualms about using escort services. During the war, whores were $4 apiece. At 19, I got all I could while I could.
Blatant, unimaginative ads devoted to call girls plaster page after page of the phone book. Holy shit, is this Bangkok or the Bible Belt?
Astounded, I erupt, “Eugene, can you believe this shit? Look at all these whores.”
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