Mea Culpa: I’m in the middle of my campaign against ‘amid’

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John Rentoul casts a pedantic eye over last week’s Independent

President Biden: a return to normalcy and competency, otherwise known as normality and competencewill shut up about “amid” in a moment, but this was the opening paragraph of an article last week: “Amid a discussion on the week that has been in Arsenal Football Club, Andrew Allen … stops himself mid-conversation.” That is horrible. “Amid” means “in the middle of”, so that is simply saying “mid-conversation” twice.

 

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