Grammar Marches On (Updated) 0
Kyrie O’Connor, on Wait, Wait yesterday suggested a new tense to embrace constructions such as
The passive exonerative.
Of course, the mistake, in the view of the Current Federal Administration, was most likely in not destroying the evidence.
Addendum, 3/18/2007:
I note that Ms. O’Connor did not claim authorship of the phrase. On the Media today attributed it to a CNN commentor, but I missed his name.
You can listen here (Real Player).
Addendum, 3/22/2007:
Read the On the Media transcript here.
