An embarrassing slip, a sharp editor, and a grammar truth that stuck

One day at work, one of my senior editors called out to me: “Surajit, wait a minute. Did you handle the International page yesterday?”

“Yes,” I replied.

“There’s a mistake in the headline,” he said.

My heart skipped. “What kind of mistake?”

“You wrote aircrafts. It should just be aircraft, even in plural.”

At first, I was stumped. Why aircraft and not aircrafts

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Surajit Talukdar

20 yrs in journalism & still allergic to clichés • A guide & mentor for young journalists/writers who are willing to learn/use AI for their work.