literally can be Hell
Brutal bunkers battle golfers
Bunkers here literally can be Hell, which is the name of the trap burrowed in the middle of the 14th fairway. There, in 1995, Jack Nicklaus needed four shots to extricate himself while taking a 10 on the par-5 hole.
Just because something is called Hell, does not mean that it literally is Hell.
And from Amber Rhea, continuing with the golf theme:
Living on a golf course, literally
While many people live next to golf courses, some future Duluth residents will actually live on one. The Hooch Golf Club, a 90-acre, 18-hole course on the Chattahoochee River, is about to be redeveloped for new homes. Fox Creek Properties Inc. plans 320 homes, about half of them single-family homes and the other half townhouses, and 30,000 square feet of commercial/office space.
That’s a cute headline and all, but the residents of the new development won’t be living on a golf course – they’ll be living on what used to be a golf course. But I guess you could say they will be living on a golf course, in the sense of “living on an Indian burial ground,” for example.
August 1st, 2005 at 10:17 pm
Of course, ot COULD be that they meant “litorally” — derived from littoral, litoral, littoral zone, sands (the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean) — and the copy editor changed it into the term to which you object.
– Jonathan Vos Post
B.S., English Literature, Caltech
(other degrees too, but that one was the first)
August 20th, 2005 at 9:17 pm
That would be a lot more interesting!