And that's one of the reasons why I quit watching local news reports. If talking heads cannot be taught to speak properly, what chance has the rest of the world?


>A weather girl on the tellly this morning:
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>"It's going to be warmer than what it was yesterday."
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>Typical:
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>"I'm not as strong as what I was"
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>Bear in mind that the "what" is a lazy modern English substitute for "that which", eg:
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>"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:
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>"It's going to be warmer than that which it was yesterday." makes no sense.
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>Why not just "It's going to be warmer than it was yesterday." or just "It's going to be warmer than yesterday."
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>This misuse is very common in England.