The Telegraph reports that “two teenage youths and a 16-year-old girl” have been involved in a car accident. Am I missing something – or doesn’t that make three teenage youths? Perhaps the word ‘youth’ now refer exclusively to males in the Telegraph’s world. And youths or teenagers, would suffice, surely?
Archives for December 2010
The ‘dark matter’ of new words to be uncovered
Neglected new words to be captured in Harvard’s digital ‘fossil record’
Really bored of the Plain English campaign now
One person’s Plain is another person’s dogma.