Are we supposed to read any political significance into the fact that Michelle Obama has a YOUNGEST daughter, she & her husband together have an OLDER daughter, while Sarah Palin has an OLDEST daughter? All appeared on one page of yesterday’s Times.
I cannot think what the coded message might be.
Perhaps the rules about correct usage (elder, not older, for siblings; youngest implies more than two) which was drummed into us at school areconsidered too fuddy duddy for today.
