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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Criminal Sentence 194: Put It in an Envelop

From an online article about American Idol:

"The band manages to envelope the singers with sound and rock the house."

It's true that envelopes (the noun) envelop (verb) some stationery, but no stationery is involved in this sentence.

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