The horror.
If you believe a direct quotation contains a typographical, orthographical, or grammatical error, the polite thing to do is to quote it as it stands with the error labelled by a "[sic]" (written in square brackets, as shown).
For example, if I felt "Imagine it was you. Why might you do it?" should be "Imagine it were you. Why might you do it?", I would write along the lines of:
...Imagine it was [sic] you. Why might you do it?
By that logic, you ought to spell phoenix "pheonix", regardless of what the Oxford English D
The Open Thread posted at the beginning of the month has gotten really, really big, so I've gone ahead and made another one. Post your new discussions here!
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