I just watched a reporter on the ABC affiliate in the Quad Cities use the following words in her story about a cropduster accident in Prophetstown:
“…he was shooken up…” That’s right, she said “shooken”. Amazing.
Then, not two sentences later, it was this:
“…nodoubtably…” Not “undoubtedly”, but “nodoubtably”. Wow.
This was the same station that used the words “he pled guilty” a couple of weeks back, not an egregious mistake, but still wrong, according to the AP Style Book, which prefers “pleaded”.
They need to do some work over there on a little thing called “English”.
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jennywo
// Aug 16, 2007 at 3:43 am
Haha!!..it’s funny when people don’t know how to uses proper grammer, aren’t it? Especially when them is supposably innerlectual people on that there news stations.
Seriously, I know exactly how you feel. The whole English language has been obliterated over the years. It’s shame.
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