Sigh.
Source: Christian Science MonitorLet me stress that I am neither the original "grammar grandma" (that title belongs to a particularly cheerful Chicago pixie), nor am I particularly nitpick-y about such things in general -- I'm more of an alliteration aficionado. But when I see this:
"Obama's turnout historical in numbers, diversity," on a major national news website, I get a little irritated. And this is not an isolated usage. Two things -- yes, if you don't pronounce the "h" the correct article for historic is "an," and if you are using the word historical to mean "history-making," I'm afraid you're wrong. Historically, I am almost beyond the willy-nilly use of "impacted," but I don't think I can stomach another graceless error being subsumed into our language. I might've just used subsume wrong.
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