Only a few sentences into the reading of last Friday’s article in the “Daily Sun”, I stopped and stared dumbfounded. Surely that glaring grammatical error wasn’t mine. I don’t misuse or misspell words. People come to me for the correct spelling or correct use of a word. It must have been my editor’s mistake. Shame on her. She should know better.
But, no, the mistake was mine. A quick check of the original on my computer confirmed that I – and I alone – made the mistake. To make ...
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