I love it when I get letters like this. Re: yesterday’s column on the living constitution:

I could go on and on disagreeing with you but I will save my breath/fingers because it would do no good. However, I do want to point out to you that “prestidigitation” is NOT a word!!

Me: I get this sort of thing all the time. I am flummoxed as to why so many people would go to the effort to write an email like this without taking two seconds to actually look up the word or the fact they claim I’m wrong about.