We've received a letter from Colin Murison Small from the operator Hidden Greece about a feature entitled 'Lay back and relax'. (Travel Weekly, March 20 - a different headline was used in the online version)
Colin quite rightly pointed out that you can't just lay - you have to lay something, such as a carpet. The word we should have used in the headline was lie.
Colin wrote: "When the next person comes into your shop and says he or she just wants to lay on the beach, try asking what they expect to lay there. You will probably lose the booking, but you will have won the grammatical point."
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