John Cowan wrote:

>
> Nicholas Bodley scripsit:
>
> > (My favorite: A local newspaper headline about an exfoliating refurbished
> > carillon: "Bells to peel again".)
>
> Diffidently I suggest that the copy editor who thought up that headline
> was being funny, and knew perfectly well how to spell. (I was one myself,
> briefly, so I have some idea what I'm talking about here.)

Was "exfoliating" Nicholas's joke, or was the article about having to
flake off layers of corrosion from the bells?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...