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Joan in GB-W
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From: "Joan in GB-W" <jjkr...@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:42:21 -0500
Local: Fri, Jun 20 2008 10:42 am
Subject: Awful use of word.
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Is it me? I found the following sentence--actually the use of the
word
concertina--simply awful.
"As she reached down to pour scalding water into the teapot, the old
woman's
face concertina'd as a throbbing pain and bright light bore down upon
her
with no warning, a sensation with which she was well familiar."
. . . . concertina'd ? ? ? ? Spell check tried to throw the word
out!
From "An Incomplete Revenge" by Jacqueline Winspear.
Joan
