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25 August 2009

Skoda Yeti

Abominable use of English in Issue 58 was gut-wrenching experience for Skoda’s new Yeti

…and when is it an apelike creature?

DAVID Rose writes: Regarding Issue 58 of your newsletter, and apologies for being a pedant, but:

Abdominal – adjective, from Abdomen, ‘the region of the body of a vertebrate that contains the viscera other than the heart and lungs.’

Abominable – ‘large manlike or apelike creature alleged to inhabit the Himalayas. Also called Yeti.’

David Rose, www.david-rose-lighting.co.uk

Editor’s comment: David, thank you for so eloquently pointing out my inadequacies with the English language! You are absolutely correct – to my acute embarrassment. In fact, it simply compounded one of those horrible moments, the dawning realisation of a gaff. I had just received the confirmation from the server that the message sending had finished, and then I saw the typo. After all the checking… And just in the back of your mind you try to kid yourself you might just get away with it if nobody notices…But no.

So apologies to Skoda and readers for the slip with the English language. In the e-newsletter under the Skoda Yeti road test I was trying to make a punchy one-liner and managed to put ‘abdominal’ instead of ‘abominable’…Doh!

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Ralph Morton

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Ralph Morton is an award-winning journalist and the founder of Business Car Manager (now renamed Business Motoring). Ralph writes extensively about the car and van leasing industry as well as wider fleet and company car issues. A former editor of What Car?, Ralph is a vastly experienced writer and editor and has been writing about the automotive sector for over 35 years.

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