Aubrey Carter

The things newscasters say to each other when they're off the air.

Their opinions of whether they think he did it or not.

Exactly.

And this could be someone in the legal field accusing him.

It could also be his colleagues, his boss, right?

This is not formal.

Anyone could make an accusation.

And then I said the alleged criminal had no criminal history.

So this is that careful wording being used by newscasters, commentators to say alleged, meaning they are accused, but there is no evidence.

There's no proof.

Innocent until proven guilty.

Exactly.

And then off the air, you said, oh, I think he might be convicted.

So this means you think that there's enough evidence here that he probably did it and a jury or a court would find him guilty, would convict him.

Absolutely.

This makes for such interesting conversation, whether you were listening to a true crime podcast or you were watching the news and saw someone be accused or charged.

This is an interesting thing to talk about.

It will come up.

So now you have the vocabulary straight so that you can jump in in those conversations.

This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2544.