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Old 26th Nov 2005, 07:25
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As a fully paid-up member of English Pedantry I must protest at the ungrammatical nature of the expression "zero-crash". It should be "no-crash", "crash-proof" or "crashless". "Zero" is a cardinal number meaning nothing so it cannot be used in an adjectival sense.

What else can you expect when you let foreigners take over your language?!

Zero-crash ? Banzai!

edited for spelling (oops!)

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