This is the place where Richard Mateosian comments, sometimes nitpickingly, about questions of writing style, grammar, and vocabulary that occur to him as the words of others impinge upon his consciousness.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Sunk
I heard Jim Lehrer giving the news on NPR today. He said that the South Koreans claimed that the North Koreans sunk a South Korean ship. "Sank," I shouted back at the radio, but he didn't correct himself. Doesn't anyone hire editors anymore?
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