Charge ABC News with Drunk Typing?
Paris Hilton may have been charged with driving drunk, but the someone at ABC appears to be a little tipsy at the keyboard!
Not only is it mistyped in the headline, but in the article body as well!
The reality is that this is a typo. However, it’s also sloppy reporting. It’s sloppy web authoring. It’s just plain sloppy. Reporters and editors have a responsibility for making sure that their facts are accurate and that their typography is clean before publishing a story.
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September 26th, 2006 in
A Day in the Life....
see what happens when nobody wants to hire an English major?
The ABC in question here is the Australian one. In the UK and Australia, they say “drink driving”, not “drunk driving”, both in print and spoken word. Sounds odd to us, but it’s correct for them.
They pronounce the “H” in “herb” (meaning the plant), too, but that doesn’t make it correct!
I’ve posed the “correctness” question to several friends in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. The only concensus I could get is that, while popular with the press, the phrase “drink driving” is not correct, as far as usage is concerned.
Neither, BTW, is “drunk driving.”
The most correct way to say it is “drunken driving.”
That’s not really the whole point, though. Instead, the press ought to have some responsibility to its readers to use correct forms of the language — whatever language that is.
Who cares? That ho drunk!