Submit Response » pedantry http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog Tue, 10 May 2011 01:19:15 +0000 en-us hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 Begger Off http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2005/11/24/begger-off/ http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2005/11/24/begger-off/#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:03:55 +0000 http://mottram.textdriven.com/weblog/?p=1016 The one thing absolutely guaranteed to send me into a frothing rage is the misuse of the term begging the question. It’s even more annoying than the abuse of innocent apostrophes.

I am not alone: Beg The Question has a concise explanation of why it is absolutely not fucking acceptable to use beg the question when you mean raise the question, handy cards to print out and hand over to those guilty of abusing the phrase and even a range of t-shirts promoting proper use.

Thank you, Brownpau, for your campaigning zeal.

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