Summary
The story is an old one. A New England editor covered a meeting of his town council. The principal item on the calendar was a popular proposal to fund a park. After a short discussion, the item carried almost unanimously. Returning to his office, the editor typed an account of the proceeding.
"Mayor Cabot," he wrote, "cast the only dissenting vote."See the full content of this document
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Read with Your Ears As Well As Your Eyes
Then the editor reconsidered. Without altering its meaning in any way, he recast the sentence to read, "The mayor cast the lone dissenting vote."
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