The drains have backed up again

The second becoming

BBC headline: Liam Gallagher becomes a grandad for first time BBC

Yet another opportunity to rag on Noor Nanji's no-shits-given approach to the English language. This time, courtesy of Liam Gallagher's first steps into grandfatherhood, which her headline describes as his first time.

You can only become something while you're not already that thing. So, in the event that his brood breeds further, he will not become a grandfather a second time, he will become the grandfather to a second child.

I hope she's better at non-linguistic culture. But I'm not convinced she is.