Think outside the bun
Colin Burrow: Quote Me!, 8 September 2022
The New Yale Book of Quotations
edited by Fred R. Shapiro.
Yale, 1136 pp., £35, October 2021,978 0 300 20597 8 Show More
edited by Fred R. Shapiro.
Yale, 1136 pp., £35, October 2021,
“... Scotty,’ though only the Yale Book records that the misquotation (he preferred ‘Beam us up, Mr Scott’) first appeared in the Aeronautical Journal in 1975.Sadly, neither volume finds room for Kirk’s other catchphrase, ‘Set phasers to stun,’ presumably because such a kindly articulation of American intergalactic colonialism doesn’t suit the spirit ... ”