The Agriculture Department on Wednesday acknowledged making improper payments to farmers worth more than $2.8 billion last year.What I want to know is, why would a farmer worth more than $2.8 billion need money from the gummint, anyway? Yer darn tootin' it's improper! The regular Joe-Bobs need it more!
Jeepers!
My pet peeve: the author of the article also used "loan" as a verb: "...the agency loaned $9 million over six years to farmers who shouldn't have gotten loans." Ew. The word you were looking for, friend, is "lent" -- like the Catholic season of sacrifice, but lower case and secular. They were Money Lenders, not loaners.
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Loan, lend. Thank you, thank you, thank you! The misuse of these two words has LONG been a pet peeve of mine, too!
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