On Letters (was Re: Hmmm. What's your favourite *now*?)

[montavilla47]

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> Montavilla47
> Going [off] on a complete tangent since 2005....

Speaking of tangents, I was reading over my post and
this made me laugh out loud:

> I have this friend who teaches writing and does a lot of reading
> for editors and producers (to minnow out promising books or 
> screenplays...

While I can produce an astonishing number of mistakes per
post, it's rare that I can make *two* mistakes in a single word.

I didn't mean "minnow," I meant "winnow," which is incorrect.
If he were winnowing out the promising books, that would
mean he was taking them *out* of consideration.  

I should have said he was "ferreting" out the promising stories.

What would be the proper cliche.