09 April 2010

This Is Why We Have Adverbs

A story in the New York Times comes with this wonderful lede:

Doctors at Bagram Air Base were stunned to find unexploded ordnance lodged in an Afghan soldier’s head. They removed it very carefully.

2 comments:

Lady Z said...

Did you see this one? It is why we have Oxford commas.

http://zugenia.livejournal.com/240750.html

David said...

What, his head?