http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/plain-bad-language Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:58:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/plain-bad-language/comment-page-1#comment-753 Jan Barnwell Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:38:15 +0000 http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/?p=2546#comment-753 Even in this webpage, there is the awful phrase "fit for purpose". In consumer law, there was, and may still be, the statement that anything for sale should be "fit for its purpose". A Member of Parliament once used the phrase without the possessive pronoun, which hurts me every time I hear or read it. It seems to have entered the language shorn of the pronoun. Am I at fault, and is that actually correct? Even in this webpage, there is the awful phrase “fit for purpose”.
In consumer law, there was, and may still be, the statement that anything for sale should be “fit for its purpose”. A Member of Parliament once used the phrase without the possessive pronoun, which hurts me every time I hear or read it. It seems to have entered the language shorn of the pronoun. Am I at fault, and is that actually correct?

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