Get Me Rewrite: Going, going ... gone?

By Stephan Benzkofer and Brian Moore

The English language changes daily, creating delight, confusion and not a little bit of frustration.

A great example: Teddy Roosevelt’s political foes might very well have considered him a bully when he used his position as president to rail against monopolies. But when TR coined the term “bully pulpit,” he was using the contemporary meaning of bully, i.…