Daniel Etherington» Institutionalised illiteracy arrive into arriving into http://www.dether.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:25:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Institutionalised illiteracy http://www.dether.com/2009/03/institutionalised-illiteracy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=institutionalised-illiteracy http://www.dether.com/2009/03/institutionalised-illiteracy/#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:48:21 +0000 Daniel http://dether.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/institutionalised-illiteracy/ You do not “arrive into”, you “arrive at”. Yet the entire British rail network seems intent on using this mangling verb construction. “The train is now arriving into Basingstoke.” Excuse me while I wail in despair.

I realise language is fluid, but come on: this is just ugly, dumb and wrong. It’s institutionalised illiteracy.

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