Monday, July 16, 2007

Dodgy English ‘Experts’ … Again

Looks like everybody’s getting into the ‘English expert’ act these days. For the past several weeks, 8 Days magazine has been running an English: Get It Right column. Last week’s started out promisingly enough, but then came this clunker:

A disinterested media watchdog would have wondered what all the fuss about Paris Hilton going to jail was about.

What they meant was, of course:

what all the fuss was about Paris Hilton going to jail.

Looks like their ‘experts’ are in need of grammar help themselves!

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