For crying out loud, it’s not an award. It’s an honour.
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December 15, 2014 at 12:28pm
If even The Sunday Times can’t distinguish now between awards and honours, things are really going belly-up. And not just in the language department, because if you can’t distinguish between the meaning of ‘award’ and ‘honour’ then you can’t separate the two concepts either.
Exactly why do people imagine that it’s called the Republic Day HONOURS list, and not the Republic Day AWARDS list?
Britain does not have a New Years Day AWARDS list but a New Years Day HONOURS list, and people are not AWARDED a knighthood but are simply knighted.
Similarly, this Saudi billionaire chieftain was not AWARDED the National Order of Merit but made an honorary companion of it.
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Ingħata medalja
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11990088
Look below:
“British honours are awarded on merit”
So actually, with all respect, they are not incorrect. Now if you say that the BBC are also wrong, then it is another matter altogether.
[Daphne – Talk about a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. English is a VERY complicated language, and it is full of pratfalls for people like you who can’t distinguish between nouns and verbs. The fact that something is awarded does not make it an award. A knighthood and membership of the Order of the British Empire are not awards but honours. Honours are awarded but a knighthood is not. These subtleties are difficult to pick up unless you concentrate.]
Just as a woman drowning is not a ‘mishap’, which was another classic recent headline.
Yes, Miss Hap.
Vide the article on page 3 Times of Malta. Drug dealers ‘pedal’ drugs.
Maybe that’s why some drugs are called ‘speed’?
The harder drug dealers pedal, the faster their drugs take effect.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/47472/doubts_shed_on_genuineness_of_saudi_princes_philanthropy#.VI7RotLF9mM
Not impressed either. Muscat and co. need to understand the Maltese aren’t what they think we are.
Does seem to me that what this man wants, he expects to get. It’s also clear he’s pretty much into using the media owned to portray a benevolent individual.
English is a very difficult language to master.
Only yesterday I read that ‘man’ is pronounced ‘dead’.
But I agree, the good ‘Times’ are long gone.
Was the Saudi Prince here to make the necessary ‘preparations’ to open a hotel?
Perhaps one outside the ODZ limits of Xghajra?