Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Correcting the Corrector

In his latest round-up of mistakes in his own paper, the Grammar Führer at the NYT says:

HAMPTON, N.H. — For much of this year, Mitt Romney has laid low …

The expression is “to lie low,” so the perfect tense should be “has lain low.”

Given who we're talking about, the perfect way to put it would be “has lied.”

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