Linguistic Overreaching

Subject: Linguistic Overreaching
From: Ken Banks <edits -at- hawaii -dot- rr -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 07:28:28 -1000

An *epicenter* is the location on the surface of the earth directly above the subsurface earth movement that caused an earthquake. A nice, precise word, yet journalists are slithering all over themselves to use it when *center* is the correct word.

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