The Star Ledger announced furloughs for its employees today. Of course, everyone took this opportunity to hate on the paper, which they apparently all read, on its own website, which they apparently all frequent. One issue of particular importance to our commenters is the apparent lack of editorial oversight.
Posted by bmc8519 on 03/23/09 at 2:48PM
"...ways to cut costs and weather the recession, ..." How much could people who don't know the difference between WEATHER and WHETHER be getting paid anyway? Maybe they should try editing their articles.
Maybe you should try reading a dictionary, stupid. Our guess is that the reporter was going for the "to bear up against and come safely through (a storm, danger, trouble, etc.): to weather a severe illness" definition of weather, especially since using "whether" would make the sentence completely nonsensical and absolute gibberish. Everyone makes mistakes with our homophones, but at least we don't post them all over the internet (we hope).
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