Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Amongst? Amidst? I don't thinkst so!

I'm still at work with piles of copy what need sifting, so I'll be (thankfully) brief.

It's "among," not "amongst."

It's "amid," not "amidst."

(This, of course, applies merely to journalism and similar sorts of writing. If you want the fair Elven maiden of Avalon to be walking amidst the flowering heath, it's your funeral.)