Dot Wordsworth

Mind your language | 22 April 2006

A Lexicographer writes

issue 22 April 2006

I thought my husband had fallen unconscious on the doormat, for I could not push the front door open. But I was mistaken. It was a huge drift of post complaining that I had used the word quick as an adverb.

The problem was solved by a bit of jiggling backwards and forwards

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