Thursday, March 27, 2008

Spotting An Error

‘Raffles City is spotting a fashionable new look’ (full front-page advertisement, ST Life!, 26 March 2008).

Make it: Raffles City is sporting a fashionable new look.
This error may be attributed — apart from mere ignorance — to the neutralization in Singapore English of the distinction between the short and long vowels in SHOT and SHORT.

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