[CALIBK12] The continued need for books (and a good chuckle)!

[Mary Wood]

I ran across this letter in today's San Jose Mercury
News and thought it appropriate for sharing. The text
is included as well as the URL for the electronic
version.

Have a great weekend!

Mary Wood
MLIS Student, San Jose State University


http://www.mercurynews.com/letters/ci_7609181?nclick_check=1

MN staff vocabulary
depth sadly lacking
Your staff took me to task (Page 3B, Nov. 18) for
misusing the word "climacteric" when I recently wrote,
"I remain convinced that California is moving toward a
climacteric in which an awakened electorate will soon
call for a fundamental restructuring and downsizing of
state government." "Climacteric," they snickered,
means "menopause." If they would broaden their
dictionary searches beyond Wikipedia, they would
discover that the word is also defined as
"constituting an important epoch or crisis" (Oxford
English Dictionary). I suppose I could have written
that "events are moving toward a climax," but I
shudder to think what your staff would have made of
that.
Sen. Tom McClintock
19th Senate District, Thousand Oaks


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