"Cause and manor of death"

[Coventina]

"Manor of death!"

This is a quote from a news story from Phoenix today:

Phoenix police say detectives are conducting a death investigation, stopping short of calling it a homicide. Investigators are now waiting for results from the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner to determine “the cause and manor of death.”

https://www.azfamily.com/2024/06/10/i-10-closed-near-deck-park-tunnel-due-crash/

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From the context, I'm not sure who is responsible for the "Manor of Death." Is the quote from the police?
No matter which party is responsible, another depressing (although somewhat humorous) example of our educational decay....




"Manor of Death"

[malaise]

1. Oh My

Rec

[leftieNanner]

2. Addams Family moving into the neighborhood?

Good grief!

[phylny]

3. My recent favorite was from a journalist who wrote about

the “five burrows of New York.”

[yagotme]

4. Maybe he was talking about the tunnels...

[Coventina]

5. Awesome!!

[3catwoman3]

6. Egad!

[paleotn]

15. Heck, even I could catch that one....

and I've made English teachers cry in utter frustration.

[JoseBalow]

16. LOL!

[SarahD]

7. Take the causeway to the manor.

[keithbvadu2]

8. Spill check sad it was ok.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. I once lived in a house in which a man hanged himself, but I wouldn't call it a manor.

[littlemissmartypants]

10. I send article corrections to the publication or the author.

Sometimes I get a thank you. Otherwise I’d guess AI authorship is responsible.

Give it some time. Homophones will make it into the AI/ML lexicon eventually. Maybe.

Love the graphic. It almost looks like a church. Which can be scary places. Especially for children.

❤️

[AllaN01Bear]

11. plays alfred hitchock theme .

[niyad]

12. That sounds like something my local fishwrap would write.

It always cracks me up to see the opposite version, when someone, trying to be clever, writes "to the manner born".

I just looked at a recent issue of my college newspaper, and was beyond appalled. I managed to get through (barely!) two articles, my mental red pen working furiously. I have a letter in to the editor and publisher, even though the term has ended. I rather doubt that I will hear anything from either of them, even as an alumna.

[Xavier Breath]

13. Too bad, that would have been a great title for a late '60s Vincent Price movie.

[struggle4progress]

14. Sew ... sum buddy kilt hymn?

[Wounded Bear]

18. Dunno yet. Mebbe.

[Wounded Bear]

17. This started long ago when papers started letting writers post their own work...

bypassing the editing department. The internet doesn't help, as bad habits and errors get accelerated and promulgated with no checks.

[Skittles]

20. THANK YOU

when did the word CAUSE replace the word BECAUSE? I see it everywhere, WTF

[Wounded Bear]

22. That has been happening verbally since I was a kid, at least...

Variant and new spellings often reflect verbal changes in the language. Usually, writers will sometimes reflect that with a leading comma: 'cause.

[Skittles]

25. talk is one thing

seeing it in work memos is entirely another

[Skittles]

19. EGREGIOUS

YES INDEED

[mainer]

21. Spellcheck?

These days you have to check the spellcheck.

[Wounded Bear]

23. Spellcheck sucks when it comes to homonyms...

[haele]

24. That or auto fill.

The bane of "typing" on a tablet or cellphone; if you don't haptics turned on, it's easy to miss letters or slide over and hit nearby letters on the smaller screens. I often end up with something that looks like a cat walking over your keyboard as you're typing in real time.

Haele

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

26. We need to add ravens, for the caws and manor of death.

When squeaky door hinges are not enough.

[Wounded Bear]

27. It was that murder of crows that did it...