The American Editors are Idiots! (spinoff on Hermione in US/UK)

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 16124

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Haggridd" <jkusalavagemd at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Indigo" <indigo at i...> wrote:
> > In my hardcover edition of the U.S. book I have "careen".  I am 
> delighted that the editors corrected this in later printings.  I am 
> saddened, however, that the Merriam-Webster people have legitimized 
a 
> mistake, merely because it has become an-all-too-common error.  I 
> differ with their acceptance of this new meaning for what had been 
a 
> perfectly nice nautical tern. I realize that the language is 
evolving, 
> but this is not evolution, it is capitulation to ignorance.
> 
> Haggridd
> p.s. I also try not to split my infinitives, even though this 
solecism 
> of grammar has become somewhat acceptable.  H.

It occurs to me also that they changed the word so that Americans 
would not confuse the British-usage word 'career' (to lurch about)  
with the American-usage word 'career' (securing a lifelong livelihood 
occupation)