Tuesday, September 28, 2010
in praise of William Yardley
To take Pullum's lead, I hereby praise William Yardley, NYT writer extraordinaire who actually performed a little linguistic fact checking. I think he deserves to be linked to as much as possible. Give him a little google-juice. Pullum's coverage here, Yardley's story here.
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