Thursday, October 1, 2009

I'm a fan of Penny-Arcade. I've had a secret desire to attend PAX for a while, though I'm kind of glad I didn't this year, due to the H1N1 outbreak there. Regardless, here's one of their errors:

Having my letters almost completely taken up with some slowly emerging word and having to make due with the resultant famine is incredibly exciting to me.

It's kind of ironic that a mistake like this would come up on a post discussing words and word games. While the usage is correct, the actual phrase should be "make do" with something, as evidenced here.

Source: http://www.penny-arcade.com/2009/07/31/automata-page-two/

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