Twice today (Friday March 12, 2021) the WANE 15 news room has had problems with the Queen's English.
This morning it was "transportation" vs "transpiration".
Editor's Note: Transpiration is the process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves, stems and flowers.
And this afternoon, there seems to be some confusion with "complaints" and "complains".
Editor's Note: Complaints is a noun, complains in a verb, and are not interchangeable.
White the Maven could go full-cynic and claim that the news is being written off-shore, that is clearly on the case.
But whatever the issue is, someone needs to remind these budding journalists that the majority of their audience still use the English that their crotchety teachers taught them in high school and not modernized versions of the language suitable for Twitter or Snapchat. OMG!
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