December 6 at 12:55pm
Edward D'Mello One more glaring rant: Times Now reported on an incident where some men were caught traveling in the ladies' compartment of Delhi Metro. The report began with "Women policemen slapped young men who travelled in the ladies' compartment..." Whatever happened to "policewomen..."?
Wednesday at 10:52am
Bala Murali Krishna One more from ToI's top article on the edit page: "...waited with baited breath."
Ramesh Prabhu BTW, did you all know that "baited breath" is an eggcorn?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
Bala Murali Krishna guess so. great find on your part so we learn something new every day.
Wednesday at 4:50pm
Edward D'Mello One more common newsreader mistake for your collection, Ramesh: "The situation would've been more better".
Sudha Aries It looks so bad sir! don't know probably their house style, but then it is a grammatical error as well!
Wednesday at 11:05pm
Ramesh Prabhu It's ToI house style, sure, for the Edit Page, but how can any newspaper (or media organisation) break accepted rules of grammar for the sake of house style? I am told the lower case 'i' is at the insistence of the ToI proprietors, who insist that this is "good for the ego" (because the capital 'I' is bad for the ego, I presume). Do you get it? I don't.Thursday at 10.20am***
Shruthi Shiva Do they really have the need to use the word, 'calendar'? It's not like, they want to say, fiscal year. Next year, is good enough, ain't?
Thursday at 2:17pm
Ramesh Prabhu Good point, Shruthi. I think "calendar year" was specified because Mint is a business newspaper — that's probably house style.
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