This is more of a feature than a bug:
The latest crime-fighting gadget, a cigar-sized camera attached to a police helmet, has gone up in smoke after problems with its batteries setting* on fire.
*Isn't that rather tortured syntax? "Batteries setting on fire"? Setting what on fire?
UPDATE: I wish my grammar was better. What is that? A reflexive use of the present participle?
5 comments:
Americans say "catching on fire" - maybe the Telegraph hack in question is angling for a summer job on the New York Times.
I wish your grammar were better.
Absolutely. The subjunctive.
PR: "its batteries setting* on fire."
How about, "spontaneously combusting"?
Mr. E.: "Americans say "catching on fire"."
Or, how about "bursting into flames".?
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