just bad editing or non-native?

[Michael Quinion]

David Barnhart wrote

> New York City wants restaurants to cut their list of ingredients - and
> maybe some waistlines - by eliminating out trans fats.

Brits certainly don't use "eliminating out". The Guardian prints
errors like this fairly frequently. In this case, it looks like
somebody changed "cutting" to "eliminating", but forgot to remove the
following word.


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