[Ads-l] CNN bloopers

[Dennis During]

If *diary* is metonymnically extended to "schedule" then a common sense of
*busy* applies and the collocation makes perfect sense, though it didn't
seem quite right to me at first.

On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM Dan Goncharoff <
00001bc983129c8b-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> Why is "due to their busy diaries" a blooper? It's a common phrase in
> British English.
> DanG
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM James Landau <
> 00000c13e57d49b8-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
>
> > On the CNN Newshour 3 to 4 PM on Wednesday June 25, one of the announcers
> > referred to the "Coptroller" of New York City.
> > There was a persistent crawler which stated that Trump and King Charles
> > would be unable to meet "due to their busy diaries".
> > James Landau
> > jjjrlandau at netscape.com
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
> >
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>


-- 
Dennis C. During

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org