Monday, May 18, 2015

RTE's Ray D'Arcy is one of the many who get it wrong

In An Irishman's Diary in Saturday's Irish Times Frank McNally writes a funny piece about the use of language, better said, its misuse. Well worth a read.

Ray D'Arcy on his show yesterday said: "... a gun could have went off..."

On a religious/Father Ted style blog: "Fr's X and Y"

Ouch.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

and what happened in the Irishman's dairy?

Michael Commane said...

Excellent, well spotted and thank you.

Póló said...

I think D'Arcy's version is hallowed by use at this stage.

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