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Mind your language

Shakespeare didn’t need to know the difference between ‘its’ and ‘it’s’

15 May 2021

9:00 AM

15 May 2021

9:00 AM

An item on the BBC news site didn’t mean what it said: ‘The latest move is part of a wider crackdown by China to reign in the country’s fast-growing tech platforms.’ China may wish long to reign over us, but in this case it wanted to rein inactivity.

It wasn’t that the author didn’t know the difference between a horse’s rein and a monarch’s reign.

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