Tuesday, August 15, 2017

RTE and its past participle

On RTE's Morning Ireland today in the 'What's on in the Newspapers' section Deirdre Purcell said when reporting on the Trevor Deely story: "..... had showed ......"

Ouch, RTE and its past participle. The mistake is being regularly made and becoming more frequent.

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