Thursday, 18 September 2014

Double-take, # 101

The masculine pronoun in the final line here would be better replaced by the name —

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Andy Murray appears distracted as he surrenders Wimbledon title’

— but the key issue is superfluity: can one look upset other than visibly?*


* The writer seems enamoured of the phrase, which reappears — with other verbatim sections of this report — the following day in a follow-up piece.
looked visibly upset

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