"ancestors" in NYT

[Dan Goncharoff]

The first "ancestors" now reads "descendants".
DanG


On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Barbara Need <bhneed at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I know we have discussed the about-face for ancestors before on this
> listserv (whereby one ancestors come after), but today's NYT has both
> uses in the same paragraph:
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>  From the print edition (10 Jun 2012, Sect. 1 p.6) article "Violence
> Hits Brazil Tribes in Scramble for Land."
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> The expansion of hugh cattle ranches and industrial-scale farms in
> remote regions has produced a land scramble that is leaving the
> ancestors of Brazil's original inhabitants desperate to recover tribal
> terrains, in some case squatting on contested properties. Non-
> indigenous landowners, meanwhile, many of whom live on land settled
> decades ago by their own ancestors under the government's so-called
> colonization programs, are just as attached to their claims.
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> Barbara
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> Barbara Need
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