The media have done it again!!!
OK big rant comming on, do any of you get mad when the media, in this case Sky News start using a totaly wrong word to describe something and no one seems to notice.
Today we have
'Petting Farms' (Story associated with the e-coli outbreak) and these
so called intelligent newsreaders are using it like it's the right word.........is it hell.
If you run a farm for children calling it a
pet farm might be OK but how do you get from that to the word 'petting' it's just some media numpty hasn't any idea about the language and all the other numpties are following on 'cos no one has the guts to say to the programme director "I'm not using that word, you've just made it up!!!!"
ETA - Just checked my OED and it's not in there