Monday, July 20, 2009

Mounties have identified remains, found on July 9 ... as Vancouver's Daniel Hughes, who went missing four days earlier. Investigators do no suspect

-- "Hughes' remains found (need to know)" in Vancouver 24 hours on July 20, 2009

According to this article on the Vancouver Sun website, Hughes was last seen on June 5. (The Sun article also says that the first remains were found July 10, but what's a day here, a day there among professional journalists?) Therefore, 24 hours has deduced that the timeframe of June 5 to July 9 is four days. How then can we expect them to realize that "Investigators do no suspect foul play" is not proper English? The phrase "dot the Is and cross the Ts" is meaningless if the Is and/or the Ts are left out.

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