Setting “record” straight

March 12th, 2009 at 07:00am Barry Wood

I’ve been seeing this type of phrase a lot recently, especially in business stories: “the highest on records dating to 1994.”

The word should be “record,” singular, not plural.

I realize that logic says there are many records. But idiom says the phrase is “highest on record,” which takes into account all of the records.

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