The Boston Globe, May 1st, 2005
LAST WEEK a Japanese commuter train careened off the rails and into an apartment building, according to the Associated Press report on the deadly wreck. Or did the train career off the track, as readers of the London-based Financial Times were told? The Brits have it right, Bryan Garner would say; in his 2003 guide, Modern American Usage, he claims that "careful writers" would use careering to describe a hurtling train. The Globe's stylebook agrees, declaring that careen means "lurch from side to side" and career means "rush wildly," and the web is awash in usage mavens who insist on the disti...
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