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SUSPECT USAGE

Sir, One morning this week, an announcer on Radio Eireann told us that the Gardai regarded a certain death as "suspicious"

From MALACHY POWELL
Fri Sept 20 1996 - 01:00

Sir, One morning this week, an announcer on Radio Eireann told us that the Gardai regarded a certain death as "suspicious". Surely it is the Gardai who should be suspicious, and the death as "suspect". Yours, etc.,

Merrion Square.

Dublin