Another Of My Forlorn Attempts To Protect The Language From Journalists

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Snub is a word you might think has everything going for it. It’s short and simple and it bites; it sounds like what it means. For the job at hand, there couldn’t be a better word.

From HuffPo: “Oprah Winfrey’s Oscars Snub Shocks Academy Award Nominations.”

These were not snubs! The Yahoo articled called them snubs but at the same time made it clear they were nothing of the sort. Reporter Sean Leahy wrote:

Whoever wrote the headline to the print version of Lamb-Shapiro’s piece might have been in the clutches of that obsession. It says: “How two strangers gave me the self-help I’d been waiting a lifetime for.”