We Should Have Said, ‘Early Birds Get Wait’
Regarding the sports headline of Oct. 6: “Early Birds Lay in Wait”:
“Lie” and “lay” offer slips to the pen
that often have troubled most excellent men.
You may say that you lay in bed yesterday,
but if you do it today, you’re a hen!
ROBERT H. CONGELLIERE, San Pedro
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