I share with the Brits their annoyance with the American misuse of the word home to mean a house.
“In LA you can make $300,000 a year and still not be able to afford a home” is a sentence from a book I’m reading and it makes no sense until you remember that the author is clumsily trying to say that houses are expensive. But she makes it sound like people with these gigantic incomes are homeless.
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But she makes it sound like people with these gigantic incomes are homeless.
Quite a lot of American terminology develops for that purpose.
Do you spot these patterns in your daughter’s books? They’re painfully obvious there.
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