tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post6234666810391671546..comments2024-03-27T08:31:44.348+01:00Comments on Random Idea English: A strange example of negative inversionWarsaw Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15373568589613033674noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-85493243035901931362014-04-23T19:49:59.492+02:002014-04-23T19:49:59.492+02:00@Caxton - it sort of jumped out at me.
@vp - I th...@Caxton - it sort of jumped out at me.<br /><br />@vp - I think it would be very difficult to form an inversion like this by accident. If you think the Guardian makes lots of mistakes now, you're probably too young to remember when it really earned its epithet of the Grauniad, in the bad old days before direct entry, when numbers and even fractions were just as likely to turn up in a word as letters.Warsaw Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15373568589613033674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-69832445244808161012014-04-23T14:38:29.014+02:002014-04-23T14:38:29.014+02:00Well spotted, Will.Well spotted, Will.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167585665865020265.post-60580328649071911742014-04-22T23:49:29.814+02:002014-04-22T23:49:29.814+02:00It's probably the result of an editing error, ...It's probably the result of an editing error, or a bad cut-and-paste.<br /><br />Almost every item in the Guardian has such errors these days.vphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647609487352038948noreply@blogger.com