May 01, 2007, 21:06
<wordnerd>Awkward phrasing? #2
Here's the second of two bits that struck me as odd in today's paper:
The bureaucrat in charge of issuing your firm with a necessary permit demands a backhander not to lose the paperwork.
Does the word
with belong?
[And by the way, the term
backhander for
bribe was a new one to me. You?]
May 02, 2007, 00:19
Myth JelliesYou have an issue with
"issuing with"?

I find it awkward as well and would prefer to see something like "...issuing a necessary permit to your firm..."
The construction
issuing with and
backhander are both not uncommon in the UK. Was the author British, by any chance?
May 02, 2007, 08:44
<wordnerd>quote:
Was the author British, by any chance?Aha! So he was, and so he is. "Robert Guest ... Mr. Guest is Washington correspondent for the
Economist."
PS: I'd mistyped this as
correspondint, which i suppose means "a hard-working correspondent."
