Verrrry interesting...

[lil_shepherd]

I have complained before (most recently on desperance's LJ) about BBC announcers using "refute" when they mean "deny

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[la_marquise_de_]

Yay!

[starcat_jewel]

I'm going to be cynical here and ask, was this in a story about Assange by any chance? If so, he may be being treated as a special case.

[lil_shepherd]

One instance was, though there are a couple of other stories here to which it was being applied. It is by no means the first time the BBC has made this mistake. In fact, it isn't even the twenty-first time.