On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Adam Bowie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Steve Timko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Kevin M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Adam Bowie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > Yes - Rose would be in awe of her, because she >>> > did oversee the expansion of the Empire into all corners of the globe. >>> >>> Small nitpicky thing: spherical globes don't have corners. Maps have >>> corners. >>> >> >> I've got to side with Adam on this one. Corners are not necessarily right >> angles. It can allude to an isolated area, i.e. "corner of the woods." >> > > Like so many things - this expression, or at least "all corners of the > world", comes from Shakespeare. If it was good enough for him, it's > good enough for me! > > http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/26150.html
Just because something has been used for hundreds of years doesn't make it correct (US citizens still write "theatre," for example, and that hasn't been correct since Noah Webster's first American-English dictionary). For that matter, not everything Shakespeare did was good. His comedies were abysmally unfunny. Like I said, it is me nit-picking, but, colloquial usage aside, the phrase isn't accurate, and if had the misfortune of having me as your English teacher, and you'd written it on a paper I was grading, you would have lost points. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
