[Verloona Ti]

Crop failures in a particular year exasperate the situation, which occurred this year with lower-than-expected crops in Australia and the United States.

I just love living in a post literate world, where words like "exacerbate" are too exotic for familiarity....Shouls this latest bit of newspaper dumbassery be blamed on SpellCheck or upon uneducated writers and /or editors?

[djf]

It is very exasperating, is it not?