Oh, Daily Beast, get a copy editor.

benita:

My friend Jordan sent me this email today:

What’s wrong with this subject line?

————— Forwarded message —————
From: The Daily Beast <emails@thedailybeast.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:42 PM
Subject: Cheat Sheet - Hedge-Fund Boss Gets His Just Deserts
To: Jordan

My reply: THAT MAKES ME SO ANGRY.

Well, since you asked…

From the Newsweek/Daily Beast Copy Desk: “To quote from the dictionary we use, Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition: Desert (3rd entry as a noun, definition 2): deserved reward or punishment [to get one’s just deserts].”

Related: your tumblrs learned a new word today!

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   “Cliche desserts fashion”? Or “cliched desserts fashion”?

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    today!” Whoops, I made a mistake. I stand corrected. And I pissed off a Newsweek/Daily Beast copy editor in the process....

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