
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 11, 1992                   TAG: 9203110334
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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CONFUSED ABOUT `DIFFUSED'

THIS IS NOT the first time I have written about the fact that writers for newspapers - not just yours - don't know the difference between "diffused" (your usage in March 2 news story) and "defused" (which was obviously meant). How about a required dictionary study of these words?

Why don't you carry Kilpatrick's column "The Writer's Art" anymore? Embarrassed? JOSEPH E. MARTIN LEXINGTON

by CNB