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OP New Scientist 2 Nov 02 p.5 Editorial
"Pumping in gas may well have been the least worst option available to the
Russian authorities......"
Surely the Editor of a British magazine should do better than that. I'm not quite sure how to
name the mistakes involved. Worst is a superlative, though a negative one, and so shouldn't
be compared.
How would you have said it?
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