English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (Dr GAB)
Common Errors
There’s a toilet in the premises if you have to ~ease~ yourself (nonstandard)
There’s a toilet in the premises if you have to relieve yourself (standard). Note that urinate is also a correct word for such purpose but relieve is a more polite word.
Your habitual ~night crawling~ will affect your marriage (nonstandard).
Your habitual pub crawl will affect your marriage (standard). A tour taking in several pubs or drinking places, with one or more drinks at each, is a pub crawl and not night crawling. Note too that a night crawler is not a person who drinks out late but a large earthworm that comes out at night.
GAB
