Thursday, August 30, 2012

It said, I read

At lunch today I said to my husband, 'It said we're going to get rain tomorrow'. Then I realized this wasn't actually true, because I'd read, or rather, seen on my computer screen, that rain is predicted for tomorrow.

I used to get my weather info from the radio or TV. Then it was accurate to say 'It said'. But these days I'm mostly on line. So really I should have said, 'I see we're going to get rain tomorrow.'

Somehow that doesn't work for me either.
Over the past weeks I've become aware that my habit is to say 'I heard', or 'it said' whereas in fact, most of the time it should be 'I read'. I've tried substituting, but that doesn't quite ring right. Maybe because it's less familiar?