On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:09:42 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > But an admitted pedantic response deserves a reply from the OED :P > > ...which is no more than an observer of trends. It offers precious > little help in what one ought to do.
Isn't that how language develops, through trends? My point in quoting the OED was that it is a real word, I made no claims that it was a good word, in fact I indicated otherwise. > A few years ago our Queen uttered a solecism (well, it had to happen > sooner or later, and as far as I know it's the only one). How did they know, was it in a voicemail message? > The gutter press were > delighted to announce a new usage: "if it's good enough for the queen, > it's good enough for the rest of us". She made a mistake with English, I made a mistake with English. If it's good enough for her for the Queen... -- Neil Bothwick Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
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