Honey, we shrank the rules
Posted by bradburg on May 1, 2008
It’s at least partly caused by that movie. Even the New York Times now misses the difference between the past tense and the past participle in some basic verbs. May 1, 2008, page C1, in “Squeezed in Europe,” we see: ”[T]he broad middle of the German work force . . . shrunk to 54 percent of the population. . . . ” Oops. So even the paper of record today sank — or sunk, film fans — under the new laxness.
