Thursday, September 23, 2010

Quick note to Ann Curry on the Fifth Amendment

In a quick check of the headlines on the Today show today, Ann Curry said that one egg company exec "took the Fifth Amendement." The popular expression is just "took the Fifth." The appropriate legal expression would be "invoked his Fifth Amendment rights." It's OK for a journalist to use either expression, but to mix them the way Ann Curry did today sounds a little weird.

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