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Mind your language | 3 July 2010

A reader has written to complain that a contributor to The Spectator used the construction ‘I was sat’.

issue 03 July 2010

A reader has written to complain that a contributor to The Spectator used the construction ‘I was sat’.

A reader has written to complain that a contributor to The Spectator used the construction ‘I was sat’. Veronica has also shown me an article in the Daily Mail about sex tourists in Thailand, which says: ‘Sat at a crowded bar at 2 a.m.

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