On 20 July 2006 Stephen Black wrote:
Beth, our watchful spelling policeperson, admonishes that the word
should be spelled tangential, not tangental. Right, I thought.
Then it occurred to me that the second form seems appropriately
constructed, namely tangent + al. So why is it wrong?
That
On 20 July 2006 Miguel wrote:
Adding fuel to the fire ...
While browsing through some old Chornicles of Higher Ed, I came across an
article in the March 10th issue that was based on a survey report titled
Spirituality and the Professoriate. The authors of the study report that 8
out of 10
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 05:00:04 +0100, Teaching in the Psychological Sciences
(TIPS) digest tips@acsun.frostburg.edu wrote:
So on behalf of those who wrote tangental in place of tangential, I
enter a plea of not guilty [sings: You say tangential, I say tangental;
let's call the whole thing off].
Given the topics of discussion here lately, I thought I'd
bring to people's attention a book review in the NY Times
of a biography about Henry Ward Beecher (Harriet's brother),
preacher extraodinaire from Brooklyn, NY. I'll leave it to
the reader to draw analogies from Beecher's life to the
On 7/21/06, Jim Guinee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jim:
Ok, maybe I should respond to -this-
I apologize for respond to you in a shabby fashion.
I don't know how to respond to what you wrote, although I wish I could.
Jim, I'm sorry too for how I responded as well, especially given that
we did
