Headsup: The Blog takes me to task in fine style, for blaming Prof. Alan Smither's mis-statement about Spanish in the U.S. on editors at the Guardian. It's a great rant, and Prof. Smithers and I deserve every syllable. But I still think that the Grauniad should have caught the mistake, or at least posted a correction in the original article. Can you imagine any self-respecting blog that wouldn't?
[Update -- Nicholas Lawrence writes:
For the record, the on-line version of [Smithers'] original article now says "pockets of".
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Posted by Mark Liberman at August 29, 2006 09:37 AM