Call me obsessive-compulsive, I guess, but for crying out loud! Can’t journalists learn how to write basic English?!?!
From this AP article on Yahoo!, written by Tim Paradis:
Lending has grinded to a virtual standstill in the wake of this week’s bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and the bailout of teetering insurer American International Group Inc.
According to my Webster’s dictionary, “grinded” is not a word. It’s “ground.” But wait, there’s more:
“The federal government has been petitioned by Wall Street to take evasive action in the money markets, the stock and bond markets, to avoid a complete meltdown of the credit system,” said Battipaglia. “Once the credit system melts down, the economy falls. We can hand-ring about if this is the proper thing for the government to do, or if Wall Street pulled the panic button too soon, but that’s something for the historians to sort out.”
Mr. Battipaglia said “hand-wring,” not “hand-ring.” He said it right: Mr. Paradis wrote it wrong. This is a business journalist for the Associated Press — arguably the major media outlet, at least for print media.
There may be more in the article, but I quit reading.