An intertitle from tonight’s PBS NewsHour :
Zohran Mamdani is the second-youngest New York City mayor in history; the youngest was Hugh J. Grant who became mayor in 1889 at just 31-years-old.Better:
Zohran Mamdani is the second-youngest New York City mayor in history; the youngest was Hugh J. Grant, who became mayor in 1889 at just 31 years old.I’d be willing to cut “in history,” but I wouldn’t be thinking about that if the punctuation had been right.
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