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Tuesday 13 August 2013
The Wrong Word Entirely, # 18
In my attempt to tidy the archive, I found this mangle that crept into The Telegraph in January 2013:
The subclause is awkwardly phrased, but that isn’t the main issue. If you’re involved in cosmetics, I imagine compliments should ideally feature somewhere, but certainly not in this sentence: the word required is complementary.
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