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WATCHING AND WINCING

mid all the excitement in the media over King Charles’ coronation, a few clangers made me wince: “coronated” occurred more than once on RNZ National and we also heard of “Henry the Conqueror” on Saturday. On Monday morning on RNZ we heard “momentos” for “mementos” (a common error).

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