Right? This is the first time I’ve heard this word used like this in my life, and I’m fairly well read and educated. Like I don’t doubt it is grammatically correct, but in my opinion, a writer’s job is to communicate effectively - especially in a news article. Because using the word like this caused general confusion among the readers, it is a failed communication.
Right? This is the first time I’ve heard this word used like this in my life, and I’m fairly well read and educated. Like I don’t doubt it is grammatically correct, but in my opinion, a writer’s job is to communicate effectively - especially in a news article. Because using the word like this caused general confusion among the readers, it is a failed communication.
It’s apparently more commonly used in legal documents - explains why we haven’t encountered it before.
Yeah you’ll often see it when co-signing a loan for example, where both parties are “both jointly and severally responsible” for the loan.