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Saturday, September 08, 2018
My Latest Pet Peeve
My latest pet peeve is the word pop-up, as in "After the Fire: A Pop-Up Discussion about the Burning of Brazil's National Museum." Why not simply "A Discussion..."? Meteorologists now predict "pop-up showers" — ordinary "showers" no longer occur, I guess.
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