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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