I welcome new Outdoors columnist Pam Stevenson. Although I will miss reading my good buddy Robert W’s columns, a woman’s point of view is long overdue.

 
On a grammar and usage police point: please slap yourself for not finding and correcting her misuse of ‘replete’ instead of ‘complete’ in the reference to buying a new wetsuit…it may have been replete with cool features, but it was complete with a hood.

Gerald Itkin

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<h1>Back to Grammar School</h1> <p class="byline">by Intern, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />July 9, 2008</p> <p>I welcome new Outdoors columnist Pam Stevenson. Although I will miss reading my good buddy Robert W&#039;s columns, a woman&#039;s point of view is long overdue.</p> <p>&nbsp;<br /> On a grammar and usage police point: please slap yourself for not finding and correcting her misuse of &#039;replete&#039; instead of &#039;complete&#039; in the reference to buying a new wetsuit...it may have been replete with cool features, but it was complete with a hood.</p> <p><em>Gerald Itkin</em></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/opinion/back-to-grammar-school-2131391/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=13356&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/opinion/back-to-grammar-school-2131391/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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