Researchers forecast that every British adult will knock back about 53m fewer litres of wine and spirits by 2016, the equivalent of at least a bottle every year.
Don’t these people have editors etc etc.
As it happens, or at least so I’m told, The Telegraph doesn’t any longer have subeditors who are the types who would catch this sort of nonsense.
Shows too.
11 responses so far ↓
1 John Price // Feb 5, 2013 at 1:10 pm
He’d have made short work of 53m litres, and probably did. Pity the Sunday Times too, though, where former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was said to have survived being murdered. There but for the Grace of God etc.
2 bilbaoboy // Feb 5, 2013 at 1:22 pm
Can I have my 53 million litres, please?
Keep me busy for a while, hic!
3 Woodsy42 // Feb 5, 2013 at 1:34 pm
But they have used ‘fewer’ rather than the commonly incorrectly used ‘less’, so not all is bad
But to work – it will take me some time to consume this year’s 53m litres.
4 PJH // Feb 5, 2013 at 2:54 pm
Does this mean that we don’t need the likes of Alcohol Concern and the other fake-charities now? Is their job complete?
.. nah – I’m being silly ain’t I?
5 JamesV // Feb 5, 2013 at 4:36 pm
Go outsourcing!!!
6 DrMakajaz // Feb 5, 2013 at 5:10 pm
F@ck a bottle a day/week less might help! but in a year really doesn’t make a difference
7 Philip Walker // Feb 5, 2013 at 5:34 pm
Woodsy: I have a suspicion that ‘fewer’ is hyper-correcting in this instance. We don’t drink alcohol a litre at a time (well, I don’t, anyway), so shouldn’t the line read “53m litres less”, not “53m fewer litres”?
8 theProle // Feb 5, 2013 at 8:32 pm
Must be a serious sized bottle…
9 Bernie G. // Feb 5, 2013 at 8:56 pm
Not just sub-editors but seemingly an absence of journalists that drink and who would recognise the incongruity.
10 Rob // Feb 5, 2013 at 9:21 pm
A challenge has been set…I will be the Ranulf Fiennes of my generation, setting off alone into an ocean of 100m litres of top class booze.
11 Serf // Feb 5, 2013 at 9:55 pm
I was planning to cut down but I’m not going to go that far.
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