Yet more hypercorrection

[Jonathan Lighter]

As wildfires threaten Ancient Olympia, the Fox News Channel has repeatedly referred to the site as "the birthplace of the modern Olympics Games."

  By way of contrast, Fox's correspondent on the scene - or at least somewhere in Greece - calls them "the Olympic games."

  JL


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