Tuesday, June 13, 2023

That's Not What You Do with Your Head

I'm not sure why I was reading the newspaper story about some Utah woman who probably killed her husband and then milked it for sympathy and money, but while I was, I came across this bizarre usage error:

She knelt her head?

Writers are just making things up now! And copy editors (outsourced, or replaced by software, or maybe nonexistent) are not noticing it.


1 comment:

Michael Leddy said...

Yow! And it’s an AP article. And the reporter has a BA from Berkeley and a Fulbright. I’m kneeling my head in disbelief.