[MinuteGal]

"The New York Times has finally woken up to the fact...."

What an irritating word !

What's happened to all those familiar words like awake, awaken and waked up?

I guess I'm just not "woke"enough.

First they came for our guns, then they came for our words...next they'll come for me, LOL.

Leni

[Does so]

"The New York Times has finally woken up to the fact...."

'Sounds awkward...Better to have written...

"The New York Times has finally awakened to the fact...."