2:34am PDT - March 16th, 2022

I'm reading Jenny Uglow's otherwise wonderful big new biography of Edward Lear, and on at least two occasions she refers to "animals and birds". I'd assumed only kids made this mistake but if fine writers and their copyeditors are afflicted then I guess it's widespread. https://t.co/tVhz9fPcTa

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