Questions of style and usage in this week’s Independent
We quoted Chris Leslie, the Labour MP who defected to the Independent Group, as saying the public were “sick and tired of this impasse, borne of politicians putting their party political interests always above the national interest”. Our style here is “born” – the convention is that it is spelt without an “e” when referring to birth, which was Leslie’s metaphor. records that by about 1775 the difference in spelling had become settled.
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