Oops, they do it again!

A friend calls me pointing out another "innovation" for the further enhancement of the English language, quoting from a piece recently written by a Cabinet minister: "devaluated". That moment I was on page 10 of today's (July 15) edition. Writing about her long waiting to be served at a bank, a lady "complained with one of the staff", as if together they did the complaining, although she meant to that officer.

Another wrote "these 10 words... was the cause of a..."

Finally, NCPE's executive director had this to say "as statistics show, the number of women graduates exceeds the number of women in employment". Is this possible? Did she, inadvertently, omit to put "such" before the second "women"? It would hardly have made any sense. Truism? It is, obviously, also the case with male graduates.