Random thoughts on waking up on the morning after nightmare night.

One of the peculiarities of the English language is that the word cider can refer to either an intoxicating liquid made from fermented pressed apples; or a non-alcoholic unfermented beverage of the same juice. Anything sold as cider in Britain contains alcohol. In North America, it is, more often than not, the other sort.

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As early as the 1880's, the word flim-flam has been a part of the English language?

flim-flam - The generic name for the various dodges by which a thief, in changing money (paper or coin), obtains more than he gives.

Let's watch a master flim-flammer working his craft.

So, after I checked into "Letters to Cozy Glow" yesterday while writing the next letter/chapter, my eyes fell on the short description and I discovered a small error in it. Small, as in, only one word was wrong. But it made the sentence sound very stupid and gave a wrong idea of what it says.
I went and fixed it, then read through the long description to make sure there isn't a similar error. I found one and it sounded similarly stupid and I fixed that one as well.

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