Muddle-headed Kay (mhw) wrote,
Muddle-headed Kay
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An unfortunate misprint,

or, why one shouldn't rely on spelling checkers.

Discovered last night in R W Holder's How Not To Say What You Mean:

destroy to kill (a domestic animal)
The meaning to kill has long been standard English, but there is a jargon use referring to sick, old, or unwanted poets.

There's a similar mess in the entry for do a line (of drugs) where power is written instead of powder.

I'm afraid that these made me laugh sufficiently loudly that I may well have woken Justin.
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