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Article: Captain radio meets malingerer as smithing gold grows business in miami. (WOOD ON WORDS).
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- Communication World
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
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Valued contributor Kathryn E. Jandeska, who is vice president and editorial director at Paragraphs Design Inc., Chicago, e-mails CW with this bit of non-pilot error:
"A front-page story in this morning's (8/10/00) Chicago Tribune quoted an industry analyst on the United Airlines pilot troubles, as follows:
"'The United Airlines situation has malingered and festered for months.'
"I think what the fellow was trying to say was 'lingered,' not 'malingered,' which, as we know, means 'faking illness.' (Some of those pilots who don't want to work may in fact be faking illness, but that's beside the point.)" My brand-new American Heritage Dictionary ...