Thanks, Nathan.
It is a subject of embarrassment in our household: my wife works with
people of several different nationalities in the RSPB* and they
frequently comment on the poor standard of grammar in the learned
papers that they have to read -- written by native English speakers!
Chris
On 1 Jan 2009, at 11:35, Nathan wrote:
> Good idea to remind all of this, Chris. The abuse of the English
> language is one of my pet peeves as well. Your example is one of the
> most common mistakes, but others that I have seen frequently in
> recent years include:
>
> principle/principal (example of correct usage: as a matter of
> principle, I refuse to shake the principal's hand)
> their/there (no examples should be needed here, it is just plain
> sloppy to get this one wrong)
> lens/lense (just to include something on topic; lense would have been
> correct in the 17th century, but this is 2009!)
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan (for whom English is an adopted, not native, language)
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