Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Latest Linguistic Pet Peeves
Numbers represent total hits just on Google News today.
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- Medal as an intransitive verb, e.g. in a report by Gwen Ifill: "American Ryan Lochte failed to medal Monday..."
- Team followed by a country name or abbreviation, or by a political candidate's name, as "Team USA" (349,000) and "Team GB" (142,000), "Team Romney" (4,680) and "Team Obama" (4,360)
- Double down, as in a news story by Matt Viser: "Mitt Romney on Tuesday night doubled down on his argument..." (2,830 for "doubled down")
- The new normal (7,340)
- Go viral (7,790 for "went viral")
