Interesting phrase in that article: "well on to the road of recovery". I've always seen it before as "well on the road to recovery".
I wonder if this is a thinko for the more usual phrase, or if it reflects a different usage among other parts of the population, or if it's consciously intending to signify something (perhaps some management-speak along the lines of "recovery is the whole process, not the destination").
I think it's a different kind of error: The Grauniad tended to end up with typos in the traditional sense — errors in the setting of type for the newspaper. The fact that when they went to digital setting there were still a few errors was the source of much mirth, but there was a genuine improvement. With news.bbc.co.uk, I guess they just employ people whose English usage is a bit iffy, and don't have anyone more competent check articles before they go live. Also, it's fairly plain that many of their articles come from Macintoshes via someone who doesn't understand how the path from Mac to web can mangle quote marks.
I think they must just not ever think about consequences and effects unless they can actually see them. A regrettably common problem; I expect there'd be a lot less crime (i.e. as defined by law, rather than "just" things like making noxious fumes in someone else's airspace) if people were better at considering consequences.
With unicode support now very widespread in browsers it's unclear that there's any excuse but incompetence for mangling quotes when converting to HTML...
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Date: 2004-08-03 05:21 am (UTC)I wonder if this is a thinko for the more usual phrase, or if it reflects a different usage among other parts of the population, or if it's consciously intending to signify something (perhaps some management-speak along the lines of "recovery is the whole process, not the destination").
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