Monthly Archives: June 2017

Has “Jumped the Shark” Jumped the Shark?

Posted on June 30, 2017 by thebettereditor

A specific (mis-)use of language smacked me upside the head (…figuratively…) recently and it deserves coverage here. Do you know the phrase “jumped the shark?” Many of us do. But someone apparently doesn’t, because he used it to mean something … Continue reading →

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Were they really enabled to be able to say that?

Posted on June 5, 2017 by thebettereditor

It’s only June, but I’ve already come across a clear front-runner for this year’s “worst sentence to make it into print.”* Cooper said Massachusetts law and regulation prohibit retailers from passing their bulk buy discount to consumers, and that Total … Continue reading →

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