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Re: Pertain - verb

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From: hayes...@telkomsa.net (Steve Hayes)
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Subject: Re: Pertain - verb
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 03:58:02 -0000 (UTC)
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by: Steve Hayes - Tue, 22 Feb 2022 03:58 UTC

On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 09:35:03 +0000, Paul Carmichael wrote:

> https://www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/news-and-views/news/2022/february/
> dangerous-motorcycle-clothing-at-show
>
>
> “I think the exhibition organisers owe it to the riders to ensure that
> anyone pertaining to sell protective motorcycle clothing can prove that
> it does the job!"
>
> Can that be legitimate usage of "pertaining"?

No.

Perhaps the writer was trying, but failing, to think of "purporting".

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