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Has the average person become stupider in last 5000 years? - Page 3 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:56:59 +0000

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By: mighty red pen

mighty red pen — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:42:11 +0000

Please don’t ask me to roll out my entire exposition on why finding a word in a modern dictionary doesn’t make it legitimate, standard English.

And the corollary to that: Just because you Google a word and turn up 2,000 instances of it doesn’t make it right!

Reply: Amen! Common usage—even 2000 of them—isn’t necessarily correct usage.

By: John

John — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:18:30 +0000

Have you explained “why finding a word in a modern dictionary doesn’t make it legitimate, standard English”? What does make something standard English?

Reply: Yes, we have talked about it on a couple of different occasions.

By: Judy

Judy — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:41:58 +0000

Now this is new to me! And I’m no dummy when it comes to correct grammar. I frequently pick out errors in newspapers, advertisements, & even in scientific journals so to read your comments about stupidest is very interesting – thank you! I like to pride myself on using the correct grammar. I found it amusing that when I typed ‘stupidest’, it didn’t show a red colour as spelling errors normally do. Shows how ubiquitous the word has become in our language. Oh, if you find spelling errors in my comments (like colour), it’s because I’m Canadian. And no, I never say “eh”.

Reply: Thanks, Judy. I’m not surprised at your spell checker. Mine likes the substandard words ANYWAYS and IRREGARDLESS, too.