I realize that I’m not part of a “professional media organization”, like CNN, but I would like to think I would have noticed a problem with the QuickVote question posted at 10:01PM EST:
“Do you think driving would be safer with less rules of the road?”
Even the grammar checker in Word noticed.
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Ouch. My sainted mother, an English teacher in her younger years, just turned in her grave. I am not the stickler for grammar that Mother was, but even I winced at that one.
It really grated when I read it. It isn’t a mistake I hear often, and I know a lot of people for whom English is their second or third language, and they didn’t learn the extra languages in school.
Don, mea culpa, your comment got deleted because it was buried among spam and I did the approve and delete all in the wrong sequence.
The safe choice is “to reduce.”