Date   : Sat, 18 Feb 2006 01:13:02 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: Grammar

Annihilannic <annihilannic@...> wrote:
> Mark Usher wrote:
> > Sometimes you just >>>> role <<<< your eyes to the heavens trying to
> > work out the correct usage!
> 
> Now there's another one that irritates me!  :-)
 
My current bugbear is "black and ethnic minority".
 
Since when were black people in this country /not/ an ethnic
minority? It betrays sloppy thinking and an over-emphasis on
political corrctness over syntactically correct english.
 
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