A weather girl on the tellly this morning:
"It's going to be warmer than what it was yesterday."
Typical:
"I'm not as strong as what I was"
Bear in mind that the "what" is a lazy modern English substitute for "that which", eg:
"That's not the same as what (that which) I found yesterday" is bad enough. Now substitute that in the sentence that the weather girl said:
"It's going to be warmer than that which it was yesterday." makes no sense.
Why not just "It's going to be warmer than it was yesterday." or just "It's going to be warmer than yesterday."
This misuse is very common in England.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
