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Lacking anything more suitable about which to post, I thought I’d mention two rather trite and marginally-useful observations I’ve recently made:

First, as if people didn’t already have enough trouble with “their”, “there” and “they’re”, have you ever noticed that there are three meanings for the word “now”? You’ve got now “the present” – as in, “it’s happening right now.” And then you’ve got now “the past” – as in, “just now, I heard that…” And then you’ve got now “the future” – as in, “now, we’ll have bigger problems on our hands”. Thankfully, they’re all spelled the same so people can misuse them most times without making my grammar nerve twitch.

Second, have you ever noticed that Attorneys (Attornies? Spellcheck sez ‘No’…) are pretty much only ever “Attorneys at Law”? Have you ever heard of someone being an attorney at … anything else? Perhaps an “Attorney at Cheesemaking”? Or “Attorney at Mayhem”?

Hey…could I be an “Attorney at Blogging”? Would that require an honorary degree? Or a fellowship of some sort?