March 22, 2007

To notice

Usually someting goes unnoticed or something gets noticed; something may even comes to someone's notice, when it is a noun. But on the trails of 'to aware' to mean to make people aware and 'to back' to mean to return, 'to notice' has often come to mean 'to issue notices to or to be served notices' as in, as reporters wrote, and editors allowed the mistake to pass through, probably unknowingly, 'the city corporation authorities said they had noticed the occupants before the eviction drive' or 'the occupants said they were not noticed earlier.' Another substandard English usage, inching its way towards the Bangladeshi version of the English language.

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