British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

Coup Droit wrote:

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Do you think they meant 'refuted'?

It's quite common to use a word that sounds similar - a word slip (which I can forgive in spoken language but is not forgiveable in a written text, from a journalist)

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Not beyond the realms of possibility.  I wouldn't have batted an eyelid at that or "rejected".

On the second point, I've been rewatching past episodes of Grantchester on ITV3 (at the moment Series 10, episode 8).  IMHO, the scriptwriters of most historical TV series have tin ears when it comes to "period" dialogue & repeatedly allow neologisms to invade their scripts (even Anthony Horowitz, responsible for most of the scripts of the excellent Foyle's War, seemed incapable of preventing the incursion of the ghastly "hopefully").  This one was written by Daisy Coulam, one of the worst offenders (along with Rachel Flowerday - cf. the otherwise enjoyable Father Brown stories).  It wasn't a neologism on this occasion, but a "word slip":  she had Robson Green's character, Geordie Keating, referring to fascist language that should be "resigned" to the annals of history...