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Topic: What's in your newspaper today?
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Right on,Tom. Onceupon: The word "lie" seems to be used now only as a noun...as in "falsehood". Here is a sample sentence: "I seldom lie on my back in bed." Everyone seems to put the word "lay" there now. Another thing that annoys me is the popular trend the past few years in newpapers and on television to say that someone "went missing", or "has gone missing". I do not think this is proper, is it?
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| Everyone seems to put the word "lay" there now. |
Your people, yes. The rest of the English-speaking world may get around to using it, as I've suggested. Like it or not, it's the American presence on the Web that seems to count. Not lessons at school.
With this and text messaging, we can be pretty sure that future generations everywhere shall continue to corrupt our language.
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Hey guys/chaps (pronounce in appropriate accent according to taste) this thread is supposed to be about newspapers, not dictionaries!
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| When I was in elementary school, that would have been marked as wrong, because "fast" was an adjective, not an adverb. |
Blimey! When were you at school? 
As far as I know, fast has always been both an adjective and an adverb. (It's also a verb and a noun.)
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| ...this thread is supposed to be about newspapers... |
Perhaps some of those could learn a thing or two too
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