Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...banks of the Thames were 250,000 people. Only a few could see the starting-line. Halfway down the course, the race was broadcast by a loudspeaker. "The crews are paddling to the start," said the cracked, metallic voice; "they are in position . . . the race has begun." There was an extraordinary pause. Then the gnome in the radio said that Cambridge was leading by six lengths. Amazement on the banks. Again the voice . . . "Oxford is sinking," it said...
Stirred by A. H. Miles' unjust accusation against TIME on the grounds of grammatical inaccuracy (issue of Mar. 9); I hasten to support you in a matter of vital importance- whether "broadcast" or "broadcasted" is the proper past tense of the verb "to broadcast...
...verb "broadcast" is a comparatively recent addition to the English language, formed on the adverb "broadcast." It is an accepted rule that coined words should be inflected regularly and, in this case, "broadcasted" would be the regular past tense of a weak verb. "Broadcast" as the past tense is, then, technically incorrect...
Last week, the Victor Talking Machine Co. (TIME, Jan. 12) announced that no more would the famed opera and concert stars under contract to them broadcast on the radio. These free broadcastings had not boosted but had decreased the sales of Victor phonograph records. Last week, therefore, the Company replaced great artists * on their concert programs with such names as Rudy Wiedoeft, Billy Murray, Hank Burr...
...past tense of the word "broadcast is exactly the same as the present tense; this grammatical error is quite likely to strike the eye of the educated, to which element it is presumed TIME caters...