[Alas Babylon!]

MY pet peeve is marshall law. It is MARTIAL law, as in Martial = military.....

Marshall Bob T. Law maybe, but when the military takes over, it is MARTIAL law.

[zook]

Well, as long as we're sharing, my problem is with people's use of the term "begging the question," or "it begs the question." Maybe once in a hundred times is the person on TV using the term properly. It does not mean "leads to the question."

Now, I began to try to write out what the term does mean, and found myself fumbling at the keyboard and thinking, well who cares on a night like this?