Poll: "He's probably spending a major fraction of his time trying to avoid getting caught." D. Rumsfeld
"He's probably spending a major fraction of his time trying to avoid getting caught." D. Rumsfeld |
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Votes: 286
Comments: 2
Added: December 2005
Comments:
| fpberger - 1st October 2009 17:23 |
| I was thinking this should be "the major fraction" based on thinking that the major fraction should be greater than half, but checking other usages, it seems common to use it to mean "one of the larger subsets of the whole" without necessarily being more than half. So I'd change my answer to "good English". |
| Kathy - 31st July 2010 19:44 |
| I think the point is that Rumsfeld confused the word "fraction" with "portion". However, I don't think that's an uncommon mistake. |
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