I have changed the comment. What I had in mind is the idea that "favouring" the 'age' crisis by paying attention to it. Not favorable for the rest of us, but favorable for the profitability of various media outlets. My way of saying that tempests in tea-pots can generate more clicks than the bigger pic. of the President's basic decency.
Got it. Favor/favour has a range of meanings for sure. One that popped into my head (from my horsegirl days) is that when a horse "favors" its foreleg, it's showing signs of lameness, or maybe there's a stone stuck in the frog of its hoof. The media have for years been favoring Trump's antics while ignoring anything of substance (and holding Clinton then Biden to a much higher standard).
"Favour' is what I use when I use favor or color as a verb to distinguish it from a noun. P.S., agreed right down the line. The media have a low opinion of the American voter.
Interesting! I've had "view with favour" embedded in my brain since high school, which is when I first became acquainted with the Balfour Declaration (1917). As an AmE editor, I'm also well enough acquainted with BrE to see "favour" as simply the BrE spelling of AmE "favor." So I'm not sure how many readers are getting your distinction.
Let's just say it is petty, private language game -- or quirk -- by and for me. ЁЯдн I lived as a kid for two years in a place that taught in Br.E., so when I came back to the U.S., I wanted to retain something of those two years.
Whom has he fallen "into favour" with? I'm missing that piece.
I have changed the comment. What I had in mind is the idea that "favouring" the 'age' crisis by paying attention to it. Not favorable for the rest of us, but favorable for the profitability of various media outlets. My way of saying that tempests in tea-pots can generate more clicks than the bigger pic. of the President's basic decency.
Got it. Favor/favour has a range of meanings for sure. One that popped into my head (from my horsegirl days) is that when a horse "favors" its foreleg, it's showing signs of lameness, or maybe there's a stone stuck in the frog of its hoof. The media have for years been favoring Trump's antics while ignoring anything of substance (and holding Clinton then Biden to a much higher standard).
"Favour' is what I use when I use favor or color as a verb to distinguish it from a noun. P.S., agreed right down the line. The media have a low opinion of the American voter.
Interesting! I've had "view with favour" embedded in my brain since high school, which is when I first became acquainted with the Balfour Declaration (1917). As an AmE editor, I'm also well enough acquainted with BrE to see "favour" as simply the BrE spelling of AmE "favor." So I'm not sure how many readers are getting your distinction.
Let's just say it is petty, private language game -- or quirk -- by and for me. ЁЯдн I lived as a kid for two years in a place that taught in Br.E., so when I came back to the U.S., I wanted to retain something of those two years.