I’m tired with these mistakes
YOU WOULD do a great service to journalistic standards if you could deal with “fed up of” and “bored of” which appear more and more frequently in the media.
There was an instance in the opening paragraph of the lead letter in the last issue, written by someone who I took to be a sub-editor at the PA.
I have even seen these surely incorrect expressions in The Times — once in a quote by an elderly literary figure, which could only have been a “correction” by a young sub.
It would have been useful too if you had corrected Paul Mason’s “There are going to be less journalists.” (Last issue, Page 16.)
Keith Turner
Wroxham, Norfolk
Both these solecisms were fully conscious, if that isn’t another one. One was a letter and I try not to edit them, except for length; let readers judge for themselves. The other was a direct quote from a video interview that went up on the NUJ website so we couldn’t really change it. Thanks for the numerous other letters on this subject. Editor