Saturday, 24 February 2007

Raft of measures

Why must 'measures' in news reports nearly always arrive on rafts?

For example instead of "The government has issued new measures on etc ......", we are usually treated to "The government has issued a raft of new measures on etc ......".

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

it makes things sound important and is intended to give the listeners a feeling of security, however spurious.