Comments on: A truck driver with a company registered in the British Virgin Islands https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/03/a-truck-driver-with-a-company-registered-in-the-british-virgin-islands/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/03/a-truck-driver-with-a-company-registered-in-the-british-virgin-islands/#comment-3035758 Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:21:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=61238#comment-3035758 It’s not American English. It’s bad English.

Ridden means one thing; riddled another.

Switching ‘ridden’ for ‘riddled’ is like switching ‘through’ for ‘trough’ because they look the same, and then insisting that it’s correct because lots of other people do it too.

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