For word buffs, a cool, long New York Times piece about what the editors at the Oxford English Dictionary do and how they do it. Among the tasty tidbits in this story is the word that means “a misheard lyric:” Mondegreen.
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One of David Pogue’s readers appears to have coined a new word: contextotomy. That’s when a company selectively quotes from a review (of a product, movie, etc.), in effect changing the meaning by omitting the context that appeared around the original meaning. In this case, the offender was a Microsoft executive, quoting from Pogue’s review of Internet Explorer 7 in an internal company email.
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