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COMPETITION: Win an EDELRID OHM II

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 UKC Articles 08 Apr 2024

The EDELRID Ohm is undoubtedly one of the most innovative climbing products of the last 10 years! Since it's release in 2017 it has been an essential tool for any climbing duo with a large weight difference. Now for 2024, there is a new version.

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 saorgregor 18 Apr 2024
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Erm... I know that the accompanying text may have been written by someone whose first language is not English, but shouldn't someone in the Editorial team have spotted the strange incorrect expression in the sentence: "The locking system has also been improved, the device now features a button as a pose to the catch seen on the previous generation"?

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 Martin Bennett 18 Apr 2024
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I expect the culprit has heard the expression "as opposed to" but never seen it written. Very unprofessional to have made the mistake in the first place, exacerbated by slackness in not using a proof reader. I hope we can trust that their designers are better at engineering than their writers are at English.

That's probably blown our chances of winning one! 

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