How often do you hear the words campaign and political in the same breath? Oddly enough, 19th-century grammarians railed against using campaign to mean “an electoral contest.” Martha and Grant discuss why. And, lost in translation: a...
Campaign once drew fire when applied to elections. Nineteenth-century usage writers Richard Grant White and C.W. Bardeen objected that a presidential campaign wrongly borrowed military language, preferring contest instead. White called it “inflamed...