| Use care with initials |
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| By Robert Dilday | |
| Thursday, December 20, 2007 | |
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The Herald needs to exercise more care in what it prints.
The phrase “Stand and deliver” leaped up off the page of the Dec. 6 front page. I thought it was used by British highwaymen robbing horse drawn coaches. The Internet revealed that this phrase is the title of a painting by N. C. Wyeth. The Brandywine River Museum informed me that Wyeth's illustration showed ferocious-looking pirates with a Jolly Roger flag. Is this an appropriate phrase to use in describing preachers and preaching? 
Ask the person on the street what BC stands for, and he or she is likely to say, “Before Christ.” A sports fan will probably say “Boston College.” When I saw those initials in a Herald headline, I wondered why the Herald was concerned with Boston College. I did have to read further to discover that you meant Bluefield College. Government has no monopoly on awkward wording and overuse of initials. Walter Dunn Tucker, Richmond                 Comments (0)
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