Does anyone else share my annoyance at the way television reporters (and the BBC ones in particular) are increasingly saying “anytime soon”, as in “this situation is not going to change anytime soon”?
The BBC used to be a bastion of correct English usage. Can’t we insist that its staff stop using lazy cliches.
Simon Mountford is a journalist and corporate communications strategist, working primarily in the North East of England and Scotland. In 2010, he was appointed a Business Centurion (visiting lecturer) with Leeds Metropolitan University School of Business & Law.
His PR executive wife, Jo, a partner in the consultancy, also operates high-quality holiday cottages in the Scottish Borders.
(www.cheviotcottages.co.uk)
