British Wildlife 22.5 June 2011

Twitcher in the Swamp

"The exciting transformation of English from a language of nuance and subtlety into a bragging, proletarian rabble-babble continues apace. Only this morning I heard a journalist offering to 'paint a scenario', by which she presumably meant to describe something. As a result, it is often difficult to distinguish a typo from a new word-coinage or neologism. Here are some examples. See what you think."

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