These two paragraphs from a BBC News report contain a couple of heinous errors:
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| Link: BBC News, ‘Child sex abuse victims failed by courts, says NSPCC’ |
The first paragraph mistakes sited for cited. In the second paragraph, the verbal shift in the final question might well confuse an adult, never mind a child, and certainly displays confusion on the part of the questioner. It’s not apparent whether the erroneous ‘was it not?’, in place of the syntactically viable ‘did it not?’ (because the initial statement is ‘It happened’, not ‘It was Friday’), is a direct quotation from some uncited (unsited?) source or an example made up by the journalist. The mangled sentence certainly does not appear in the NSPCC’s own press release.
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