Clarification of the Year

This, from the Corner, cannot be improved upon:

Britishism [John Derbyshire]

My exhortation, at the end of this week's Radio Derb, to "keep your pecker up" has been widely misunderstood. I apologize. This is a Britishism. It means: Keep an optimistic attitude and mien—shoulders back, head up, nose (that's the pecker) in the air. I hope that is clear.

Posted at 2:27 p.m.