It's open season for prepositions in the newsrooms, it seems. Traffic reports on Radio Lancashire now suggest that we look
to the roads, not
at 'em. It could have been the sort of slip-up that anybody could make on air, I thought, until the lady said 'And now let's look
to the trains.' Yes, indeed, let us look
to the roads and the railways. They should certainly be treated with circumspection, being much in need of attention.
This was hard on the heels of an expert on something-or-other on Radio 3, a few minutes earlier. The 'coup de gras', he said, confusing his
paté de foie with his
grace. The 'blow of fat' ? I rather like it.
And there was me, thinking a
'coup de grace' was a lawnmower. You unlearn something every day when the wireless or the telly is on.
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