May 6, 2011

Pro Tip: Canvas is a fabric

You see this a lot, e.g., here at the Madison Capital Times:
The canvas board chose to discard the ballots. . . . The canvas board should reconsider this ...
It's canvass. Canvas is what you paint on and make tents out of.

3 comments:

  1. For years, the only Madison paper you could rest assured would contain almost no typos or grammatical foul-ups was the Onion. It moved to NYC.

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  2. Bussed instead of bused is another one that drives me crazy. "The Democrats bussed thousands of demonstrators to Madison." Yikes!

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  3. Heraldblog,

    There are many demonstrators who would like to have been bussed, particularly by some of the Hollywood folks who stopped by.

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