A WORD IN THE HAND: ERROR

SUE DE GROOT | Wander into aline water and you’l make erras for eeras while surveing it

A column to satisfy your inner grammar nerd

09 December 2021 - 20:27 By Sue de Groot

A certain Cape Town newspaper, which shall here remain unnamed, got more public attention than it usually does a week or so ago when its street posters proclaimed a “petrol price hike era”.

We do live in an era of petrol price hikes, but clearly what was meant here was “error”...

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