| For Rob |
[Jan. 3rd, 2009|06:07 pm] |
Found this on the local paper yesterday (Albuquerque Journal):
The correct word is intersession (a period between two academic terms).
For the record, intercession means:
1. an act or instance of interceding.
2. an interposing or pleading on behalf of another person.
3. a prayer to God on behalf of another.
4. Roman History. the interposing of a veto, as by a tribune.
I sincerely hope the Journal made a simple spelling mistake. Otherwise UNM has some really weird stuff going on during the semester break.
The mistake doesn't stop at the photo title. It keeps going on in the text of the story:
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Yow. Major accident at the intersection of intersession and intercession...
Does that first picture have an accent over the "e" in classes? That lead me to believe it was Spanish. However, that doesn't make up for all the other misspellings.
No. That's a speck of dirt. If that was an accent, how would one pronounce it? Class-SAAYS? Cla-SESSES? | |
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