Outrage: Newspaper Uses “Limn” In A Headline

“The Baltimore Sun says several readers groused about the use of the word ‘limn’ in a recent headline.

‘I had to keep looking at it again and again,’ Sun reader Carol Shaw wrote in an e-mailed complaint about the Tuesday headline. ‘I consider myself an educated person … I have never heard of the word ‘limn.’ … To put a word like ‘limn’ in the headline for the lead article on the front page of this newspaper seems to me to be unbelievably arrogant and patronizing.’”

UPI

It is the height of arrogance for a newspaper to use such an obscure word in a headline for the lead article on the front page.

This outrage is simply unforgivable, and I urge everyone to cancel their subscriptions to the Baltimore Sun.

Words are my stock-in-trade, but I have never heard of the word “limn.”

I have used the following words in headlines: Skank, degenerate, bootylicious, ho… But if I ever use the word “limn” I hope that God will smite me!

 

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