Once again a tip of the fedora goes to WYFM (my favorite fount of journalistic tomfoolery) for this:Man Suffers Collapsed Lung After Alleged Stabbing Incident
Modifier issues aside, the story itself negates the headline.
"One person is in the hospital after a stabbing at a construction site." Nothing alleged about that, so far as I can tell. But wait, there's more: " McCoy was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury." Shouldn't they have charged him with alleged assault?
Dear WYFM Newsroom
Allege
Function: transitive verb
To assert without proof or before proving
That is all.
Modifier issues aside, the story itself negates the headline.
"One person is in the hospital after a stabbing at a construction site." Nothing alleged about that, so far as I can tell. But wait, there's more: " McCoy was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury." Shouldn't they have charged him with alleged assault?
Dear WYFM Newsroom
Allege
Function: transitive verb
To assert without proof or before proving
That is all.
1 comment:
That was a perfectly cromulent use of the word. :)
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