Thank you for that clarification. I was beginning to wonder at my previous understanding of the expression and assumed I’d been wrong.
I don’t regard it as pedantic when someone points out errors like this. I regard it as educational.
I keep in mind that liberal troll the site. I don’t want to give them any side issues to use as ammunition against us. I want them to be forced to debate us on our ideas and not on our grammar.
Of course in this case you can look at it both ways. The question is begging to be asked, but the government is evading the question.
Then, you know we already have a problem. Ofttimes, the spelling on FR is atrocious. So many of our posters must have been asleep in English class. Think of the continual misuse of "loose" for "lose," for example. Makes me want to pull out my hair.
And don't get me started on "there," "their," and "they're."