[nicollo]

My professor of rhetoric held that "when words lose their specificity they lose their meaning."

As such, I'm ever bothered by blurred word substitution, such as "quote" used as a noun or "they" used as a 3rd person singular (typically with inanities such as, " the Acme Company stands [3rd person singular] behind their [3rd person plural] products").

"Contemporary" used in place of the more specific "contemporaneous" is another one. For historical purposes "contemporary" refers to something or someone happening at the same time in the past in reference to one another, such as, "They were contemporaries" or "In 1921, contemporary mores were such that...". "Contemporaneous" refers to an account from time in the past that it occurred.

Thus our title ought read "Contemporaneous Report Regarding the Events in Tulsa, May 31, 1921"

[BenLurkin]

Okay.