Saying ‘this includes, among others…’ is stating the very same thing twice!

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If you need to shrink “DO NOT,” you write it as DON’T (not DONT). The apostrophe is mandatory.   Again, the plural for “foot” is FEET and not FOOTS as the artist commissioned to make this signpost is trying to show us. Trust signwriters! PHOTO | COURTESY

A lot of this space was used up paying tribute to a retired private sector supremo who passed on recently and due to that, we shared much less than the usual number of gems. We’ll therefore attempt to compensate by moving fast without much ado and dish out what picked up over the past week. Here we go…

The Saturday, March 23 edition of Bongo’s senior-most broadsheet ran a Page 2 story headlined, ‘Education stakeholders join forces to curb violence against children.’