A while ago, I received a message that said:
Sorry for the ... (major mess-up and service failure, essentially). It was due to circumstances entirely outside our control.
Apart from the fact it came from a utilities provider and any kind of apology is rare, this one sounded like a contradiction. Can you see why?
When reading or writing ‘sorry for’ and ‘sorry about’, most people interpret them as very much the same. There is a subtle difference, though, which might be important in some cases.
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