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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Criminal Sentence 539: Shoe Shopping

From something I'm editing:

"You, my friend, are a shoe in."

Are you calling me a shoe? Ha!

That should be "shoo-in."

2 comments:

Laura said...

I don't understand why this error keeps showing up. What the heck does the writer think "shoe-in" means? I've caught six (6!) instances of this mistake made by the professional writers and editors for Yahoo.
http://terriblywrite.wordpress.com/category/confused-words/shoeshoo/

The Sentence Sleuth said...

I think the writer doesn't think!