Readership or Audience?
rogersgeorge on March 17th, 2016
The comic strip Candorville features a fellow, who, like me, is a writer and somewhat of a grammar curmudgeon. This strip touches on one of my hobby horses. You, dear readers (all three of you), are my readership, not my audience. An audience hears, a readership reads. If you want to write to be easily understood, use the best word, not any old word that comes to mind.
(See the previous post, about ambiguity) In that last panel, is he referring to her question, or to what should be on his gravestone?
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