(BTW, at my home congregation the minister based much of todayâs sermon on On Repentance and Repair â so thank you for that!)
OMG that could so easily have gone wrong! Enthusiastic consent is a prerequisite for rearranging books. Or reorganizing kitchen cupboards.
I guess the reward was that 20-odd years later, the older son organized our entire collection of books by Library of Congress catalog number (slightly modified to meet our needs). Itâs a long game.
At some point, not long after our children were born, we realized that we had brought into our house more competitors for bookshelf space⌠and we wondered again, âwhat have we done?!â
Returning three weeks later to note a use of the plural: âHe was still tender-hearted towards her in spite of her enormities.â (Anthony Trollope, *The Eustace Diamonds*, Chapter 71)
Itâs not my main profession, but I have edited math papers and books. The first time I edited a book by a single authorâwho was Australianâwas also the first time I think I ever saw âleadâ consistently used for âled.â I had to do some research to make sure it wasnât simply an Australianism!
My brain hears a long O when I read âtoting,â so I think I would only use âtoting upâ if I were carrying something up the stairs, say in a tote bag.
Amused by the totting-up of the occurrences of âforgiveâ and âmuddleâ and so forth, because just a day or two ago I did a similar exercise: Anthony Trollope, in The Eustace Diamonds, uses inflections of âburthenâ 25 timesâŚ
