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Thread #132499   Message #4147312
Posted By: meself
14-Jul-22 - 11:59 AM
Thread Name: BS: Language Pet Peeves
Subject: RE: BS: Language Pet Peeves
How about "The First Annual ..."? And, perhaps, not quite as black-and-white, but news reports are always telling us about 'historic' events that happened five minutes ago or are about to happen - seems a little unfair not to let History decide what is historic ....

"until there is a second, is an Only" - That thought always crosses my mind when there is a report of "the first woman to be appointed ... ", etc. ... but I think we've lost that one.