07-31-2015, 08:51 AM
(07-31-2015, 01:03 AM)Markster Wrote: Yeah, it's a pretty simple linguistic corruption...
It's one of many. It's a natural evolution of language.
Quote:And then we all forget that it was ever "drawn", and suddenly we have this cultural momentum that forms around the mental image of something physically dropping.
And what's wrong with that? There's a long historical tradition of dropping a flag to start a race so "dropping" a writ to start an election race is actually quite evocative.
I do appreciate Pakin's point that the original term was to draw up a writ. This bastardization of the term is far better than the grating use of, say, "should of" for the correct "should have."
In any case, let the campaign begin...