EMEND (ih-MEND)
To
correct and revise a text
Common
clue: Improve text; Correct copy; Fix, as text; Make changes;
Edit; Revise; Better; Blue-pencil; Alter; Correct misspellings,
e.g.; Redact; Tinker with the text; Polish prose
Crossword
puzzle frequency:
4 times a year
Frequency
in English language:
44119 / 86800
News:
Rewriting
'Porgy and Bess' – Is the Text of a Classic Ever Sacred?
According
to the Compact Oxford English Dictionary “The words emend
and amend
both derive from
Latin emendare
‘to correct’
and have similar, but not identical, meanings in English. Emend
means ‘correct
and revise (a text)’, while amend
means ‘make
minor improvements to (a document, rule, or proposal)’.”
“Let
me be clear that I don't think most mainstream newspapers are any
more guilty of bad news reporting than their competitors. Some
are downright awful while there are some that are clearly better
than others. But their editors emend
stories to put a
particular slant to them; the editorial writers craft their
opinions in specific ways; the regular columnists are selected
from a group of voices that suit the desires of the newspaper's
editorial board or owners; the news that is selected for printing
is news from a very narrow array of the world's events. Reading
most daily papers, for example, how many readers would know that
there are over 50 armed conflicts occurring in the world even as
I type this? Why have most journals not thought to help their
readers care?”
[Source:
Paul Harris is an Axis of Logic columnist]
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