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Article: APRIL'S COURT OF PEEVES, IRKS & CROTCHETS HEARS `NEW RECORD'.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- April 7, 1996
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Byline: James J. Kilpatrick Universal Press Syndicate
If the clerk will call up a complaint from Treb Courie of Clemson, S.C., the April assizes of the Court of Peeves, Irks & Crotchets will begin. The plaintiff asks an injunction against new record. The injunction will be denied, but it will be sympathetically denied.
On the face of it, ``new record'' is a redundancy, and the court generally frowns upon redundancy. Good writers abide by Professor Will Strunk's famous Rule 17:
``Omit needless words! Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a ...