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OUR KIND OF ENGLISH: Election aspirants ‘pick’ nomination forms? Nope; they ‘pick up’ the forms
Friday, August 22, 2025
- 3 min read
By
Abdi Sultani
What you need to know:
In this edition of ‘Our Kind of English’, we’ll not use our limited space bashing at those who talk about this year’s general ELECTIONS, instead of this year’s General ELECTION. Why, that would bore to death our colleagues who care to listen to us.
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