Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Sitting pretty
Some things just don’t set too well with me. For instance the sit and set syndrome. At first blush they seem interchangeable, but I sat out to search the dictionary and found this at sit “to rest ones self upon the buttocks”, well that would seem to set the story straight. Well until you look at set, whereupon you will find, “to cause to sit.” Oh really? If someone offers you a chair, it seems you must set before you can sit, but sitting isn’t setting, that’s the locale where you are resting...
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