I am the most timmy
 

Or at least I'm having serial annoyances.

In a forwarded e-mail message today: "froth" when he meant "fraught."

tm

U.S. to host oppoition meeting in Iraq

cnn.com's headline ticker (at 10:06pm PST on April 9, 2003).

I am the most timmy
 

Does the sender pronounce height as "heighth," too?

Inure
 

Thanks to Dictionary.com's Word of the Day, I'm starting to wonder whether I and every lawyer I've ever met have been using "inure" incorrectly. Of course, it never gets used except in the phrase "inures to the detriment of the plaintiff," in which phrase it's pretty meaningless anyway. When you file a complaint, the average reader will safely assume that you're complaining that something or someone is giving you some cause to complain.

[Edit: typo]

Inure
 

In transactional practice, a thing inures to a person when it benefits that person or or that person fixes his interest in it.

What I am wondering is why "X inures to the benefit of Y" is the drafting standard. It seems redundant.

Any Edwin Newman types out there?

Or or
 

Flame away!

Inure
 

They must be repeating themselves:

Dec. 20, 1999, WOTD

It does seem incorrectly used. In an "obviates the need for" kind of way.

cnn.com does it again
 

CNN's Brent Sadler: Tikrit quite, looks like ghost town

location: http://www.cnn.com, first bullet point under very big "Tikrit Abandoned" headline (at 22:21 PST on April 13, 2003)

NOTE: The mistake was corrected within three minutes of my post.

Inure
 

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
You haven't seen a lawyer use the word "inure" in the transitive sense? One would've thought you moved in better circles.

In any event, Dictionary.com's definition of "inure"'s intrasitive sense is incomplete. It's used in two ways: (i) come into effect, take or have effect, be applied &c , or (ii) to serve to the use or benefit of (e.g., the donation inured to the benefit of the charity).

Other dictionaries, perhaps even yours, include a broader definition of the intransitive sense.

Inure
 

What a relief! My cheap-ass firm doesn't have one of those better dictionaries upon which you rely. Is your firm accepting resumes? Because I really hope we can be cubicle-mates and share a copy of the OED and perhaps much more.

A roomful of wannabe Safires
 

My god, who started this room?

My god, no wonder I hated law school so much.


not7yS(hoot me)

A roomful of wannabe Safires
 

Mistress Eaze so graciously
conjured this room with alacrity
upon a silly request from me
so the FB remains timmy-free


pretermitted(with a flourish, em doffs em's feathered cap and bows deeply)child

Inure
 

All these lawyers and no one has noted that inure is a term of art, set out in section 501(c)(3) of the tax code (no part of the net earnings of a charity may inure to a private individual) and defined in the regulations as well as various rulings and cases?!?!!

Class, please, remember that dictionaries constitute neither statutes nor caselaw, and thus have no precedential value unless cited by said statutes or caselaw. The legal term of art is not subject to amendment by the rabble, even when the rabble have JDs.

A roomful of wannabe Safires
 

HERE HERE!!

Good Post, but must the FB be truly timmifry?

and this is the Delicious Dish on National Public Radio . . .
 

timmifry? Is this some new dish?

pretermitted(I can't cook)child