In Future, and Exponential
I've long thought that speaking of 'in future', rather than 'in the future', was a mark -- in Britain -- of not quite having had the best education (or not benefiting from it). I mean goodness, no one speaks of 'in past', rather than 'in the past' (do they?). But lo and behold, Robin Collingwood, in his Intellectual Autobiography, speaks in that way--'in future'. Collingwood was no slouch.
In another case of fine distinctions being lost -- this can be laid at the door of the Coronavirus pandemic, I mean if correlation is causation (: -- 'exponential', which has traditionally had its precise mathematical meaning, is, if recent speech is a sign, in danger of meaning 'rapid and scary!'.
