Mechanism for lobbying missiles or an author's body of work?
kmcbears1
karen at dacafe.com
Fri Oct 1 16:36:54 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 114376
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman"
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
> List elves, kindly forgive what is to follow. It's not OT, really,
> but I recognize that it is my airing of a pet peeve.
>
> We all boo-boo from time to time--heaven knows I've deleted a fair
> number of my own posts here and have been red-faced over errors in
> logic--but if I might, I would like to point out the following:
>
> cannon - a large, artillery gun, usually on wheels; a firearm for
> discharging heavy shot with great force
>
> canon - sanctioned or accepted body of related works; the authentic
> works of a writer
>
> JKR has produced a canon, not (as far as we know) a cannon. :-)
> Please forgive if this sounds pompous or snarky; it's not intended
> to. Just a friendly neighborhood Public Service Announcement.
>
kmc here:
Thanks for the reminder. I have now added canon to my spell checker
at work. We had cannon but not canon in the web spell checker. I
automatically excepted the change with out thinking.
- kmc
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