Word: correctional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week came back to work. He stepped briskly out of the elevator of Chicago's Tribune Tower into his oval-shaped office on the 24th floor, greeted his secretary and asked: "Will you please call WGN [the Trib's radio station'] and ask them for the correct time?" A moment later she announced that it was 11:21. McCormick carefully set the gold-banded watch on his right wrist and the silver-banded one on his left. Then, watches synchronized, he sat down beside his big marble-topped desk to face the Trib's big problem...
...vulgar snafu derivatives may have been American in origin . . . but acceptance and widespread dissemination of their useful addition to Anglo-Saxon idiom was peculiarly British and essentially Eighth Armyish. Your correct if prudish definition of snafu as "situation normal, all fouled up" is a reminder that there were exclusively British ascending and descending degrees of snafu. There was the "self-adjusting snafu" and the "non-self-adjusting snafu." And there was the climactic "cummfu," which, roughly translated, meant "complete utter monumental military foul...
...correct pronunciation, incidentally, was "snahfoo" . . . Had Churchill's astonishingly forgetful mispronunciation been correct, all Australian personnel in the Eighth Army, including myself, would naturally have pronounced it "snyfoo...
...higher than it was during the Nazi regime . . . The Foreign Office is a rat's nest ..." The Bavarian radio charged that 85% of the top personnel were Nazis. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (who is his own Foreign Minister) did not help matters much by replying meticulously that the correct percentage of Nazis was not 85% but 65%. Nine months ago, an angry Bundestag committee, composed of members of all the major parties, took off on its own to hunt the Nazis in the Foreign Office woodpile...
Wayne University's Professor (of English) Donald J. Lloyd has long believed that Americans are too busy thinking about their grammar to learn how to write. They are possessed of a demon, "a mania for correctness," writes Professor Lloyd in the current issue of the American Scholar. "Our spelling must be 'correct'-even if the words are ill-chosen; our 'usage' must be 'correct'-even though any possible substitute expression, however crude, would be perfectly clear; our punctuation must be 'correct'-even though practices surge and change with the passing...