Would the blogosphere (or blogtopia, and y!sctp!) please stop using “peddle” as though it meant “pedal?” If you quietly renounce something you’d previously stood for, you are backpedaling, not backpeddling. If you tone down your rhetoric about a specific issue, you’re softpedaling, not softpeddling.
Grrrh.
You should read this guy: https://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2005/12/lost_s02e09_wha.html#more
He seems to know stuff…real stuff.
Correct in the first case, wrong in the second.
Ahem. From dictionary.com:
softpedal:
2. Informal. To make less emphatic or obvious; play down: soft-pedal a potentially explosive issue
sage advice. Or is that wrong to say?
Thymely, cassie-b, thymely. 😉