Tch tch, the standard of editing nowadays...
Seen in an article in The Telegraph online:
"The need to buy ever more powerful computer hardware soon outstripped the founders' credit cards and they sort (sic) backing from outside investors."
That's "sought", dear Telegraph sub-editor. Sought. Past tense of "seek". Sought and sort sound the same, but mean different things. In short, they're homonyms. (Do look that up in a dictionary, because really that doesnt have anything to do with anybody being gay.)
2 comments:
sort indeed! maybe you should have sort a job with them... (mind you, that's a horrible sentence even with the right word in!)
Wow Shyam. How can the editor of Telegraph have a sound sleep everynight if he has reader editors like you.
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