She actually said, "The cleanup has began." I nearly died. This from a CBC TV reporter who, presumably, was hired as a result of her qualifications. This person must have graduated from some kind of journalism school to have been interviewed in the first place!
How appalling. Has no one pointed out it's "begin, began, begun"? We used to play this game with the kids in the car, naming all the tenses of verbs, such as......
"Come, came, come. Show, showed, shown. Begin, began, begun. Fly, flew, flown. Take, took, taken. Speak, spoke, spoken. Run, ran, run. Eat, ate, eaten. Fall, fell, fallen. Swear, swore, sworn. Give, gave, given....I could go on. You get it. So many don't.
If you can't speak the Queen's English, step away from the camera.
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My pet peeve is with the TV Weathermen... oops... 'Meteorologists'. Their profession is a limited number of words... hot, cold, atmosphere, warm front, high pressure and... "temp-a-chur".
ReplyDeleteIf they can enunciate "meteorologist" then surely they can enunciate "temp-er-a-ture".