From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 62187
Date: 2008-12-19
> --- On Fri, 12/19/08, Brian M. Scott <BMScott@...> wrote:[...]
>> It's not exclusively journalistic usage. A few minutes
>> with Google got me the following examples, none
>> journalistic.
> OK, but I think examples like the ones you have producedI see no reason to believe that there even *is* such a
> are reflections of a tendency for people to imitate
> journalistic usage.
> I guess I use more old-fashioned language. I know I wouldProbably not; if I were being that informal, I'd probably
> not use <police> in the cases of the examples you have
> mentioned. Would you?