Your headline says “Crisis fightback.” Is fightback even a word?
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Not that I know of. We subsequently changed it: GBU Editor
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Fightback is a common word in British English, the version of the language used in Reuters stories written outside the Americas. See
- Posted by David Millikenhttp://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/fig htback?view=uk
for a definition.
Clearly it’s not ideal if it was in a section of the website aimed primarily at Reuters’ U.S. readers.
It’s very common in the UK:
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/fig htback?view=uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/ nov/22/bnp-far-right-morley-yorkshire
- Posted by JudgeWhy don’t you provide the academic reference (title, author, date, journal title , vol , page) at the end of news stories like the contagiousness of happiness?
- Posted by john millar