The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #132499   Message #4176818
Posted By: Steve Shaw
14-Jul-23 - 05:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: Language Pet Peeves
Subject: RE: BS: Language Pet Peeves
"Right up until his death, the late Duke of Edinburgh received a payment..."

Good old Nicholas Witchell, our long-standing royal sycophant, said this on the BBC news this morning. Well up until his death Phil The Greek wasn't "the late," was he, unless we were all fooled and he'd been a dead man walking...