Wednesday 4 February 2015

"Can you stop a singular from becoming a plural?"

Headline at the BBC:

Can you stop a paedophile before they even start?

1 comments:

Ralph Musgrave said...

In defence of the BBC (something I rarely do), they're using a widely employed sexually neutral term. I use it myself. It's very unsatisfactory because of the "singlular / plural" problem. But political correctness takes precedence over mere grammar.