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Oliver Schick

Is this usage Australian English (article by Australian Associated Press)? I haven't heard it before. In UK English, it is plainly wrong. If not Australian, it is a very strange mistake.

The crew member said he oversaw a quarrel between Salas and Llanto in the ship’s galley a week before the cook’s disappearance.

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jun/23/death-ship-crew-member-says-he-feared-for-his-life-after-cook-vanished

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Malaconotus in reply to @Oliver Schick

oversaw

I don't like it, and I only ever heard it in American in this sense and not in English usage, but oversee to mean 'accidentally saw' is, apparently, OK... http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/oversaw

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Oliver Schick in reply to @Malaconotus

It's definitely a strange usage. That it's in Collins probably only reflects such usage. I certainly don't think it should catch on. 0:)

In other news, a recipe in Hackney Today recommends to:

Blend the basil with storks still on.

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