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This bug appeared in a news report published by San Francisco Chronicle | SFGate on Jul 20, 2010 by John King.
View the original news report.
Bug Type: Simple Factual Error
King describes a bicycle rack as "fat in girth and square in circumference".
A square does not have a circumference - a circumference refers to a circular geometry - circle, arc, oval...
Supporting Information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumference
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By my understanding of "circumference," this is a valid point to make.
But since we've chosen to focus MediaBugs on errors of substance rather than those of grammar and usage, I think we're going to have to mark this one as "off topic."