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DO YOU CRAVE FAME OR NOTORIETY?

There are many words that have been misused so often that their meanings have started to blur – and writers who should know better have used the wrong words in the wrong places.

For example, I recently read an article in a national magazine claiming that a particular musician had earned his notoriety by producing a couple albums. “Notoriety” was the wrong word – unless those albums were downright horrible.

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