WORD IN THE HAND: DAMAGE

SUE DE GROOT | Hammer this in with a gavel: they say damages, you ask what’s the damage?

A column to satisfy your inner grammar nerd

02 September 2021 - 20:23

Isn’t it funny how very frequently we don’t notice that a new word has been born — nor, in this case, that an old word is being abominably abused — until someone points it out, and then we suddenly start seeing it everywhere?..

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