Attack didn’t involve weapons;it involved the ‘use of weapons’

No lecturing today. It means we’ll move straight to our key task of delivering linguistic gemstones picked up over the week. So here we go…

In the Saturday, May 16 edition of Bongo’s senior-most broadsheet, there’s a story from the Isles whose headline reads, ‘Lawmakers demand tougher action against criminal gangs,’ with the intro written thus:

“Members of the House of Representatives have raised CONCERN over increasing criminal incidents across the islands, warning that rising cases of assaults, theft and attacks INVOLVING traditional weapons are creating fear…”

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