17 March—Eagle Eye Edna, as the sharp Watertown reader wants to be called, caught a conspicuous typographical error in yesterday’s disquisition. “Meconium for Donald and Elon,” she reported, should have been “Encomium for Donald and Elon.” “Shame on you mordy,” she added. Gleefully, no doubt.

It’s gratifying that Eagle Eye Edna picked up on “meconium.” But it’s not a typo for “encomium.” Perish the thought. Any typo in The Litchfield Monitor is (almost) unthinkable.

An encomium, as everybody probably knows, is an expression of high praise, a eulogy, a panegyric. For Donald Trump and Elon Musk? In The Monitor? Edna should know better. So should everyone.

Meconium, on the other hand, is the very first bowel movement of a newborn baby. That’s more in keeping with The Monitor’s opinion of Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

We thank Edna for her eagle-eye diligence and hope she appreciates our pointed non-typo. And, in the interests of accuracy and comprehensiveness, “meconium” also is a word for opium, the inspissated juice of the poppy, from µήκων (pronounced “maycone”), the Greek word for poppy. No idea how it came to mean neonatal poop . . .