Publication Date
10-1-1970
Abstract
Recently one of our sprightliest columnists wrote an entertaining article on things that people were "sick and tired" of hearing. For a final example, as a sort of climax, he said: "I am sick and tired of the attempt to eliminate the word 'now' from the English language. On radio, on television, and in the press there seems to be a conspiracy to wipe out this wonderfully short and to-the-point word meaning 'at this very instant.' The most common substitute is the word 'presently,' which doesn't even mean 'now,' but 'soon,' as everybody with a second-grade education used to know. But does that keep these halfwitted radio people from saying, 'The temperature outside our studio is presently 67 degrees'? It does not." (1)
Recommended Citation
Foley, L. (1970). Sick and Tired. Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts, 11 (1). Retrieved from https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/reading_horizons/vol11/iss1/2
