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To: American Dream 246

I write a lot of Business requirements, functional requirements and even teaching documents. There is a word I use all the time that does not exist and I’ve even “added” it to my dictionary in Word. Like Shakespeare, I too invented a word. It comes from the word incentive. The word is incent.

The spell checker here hates it too. :)

FWIW, sometimes I say subscription when I mean prescription. So sue me. ;)


3 posted on 07/19/2010 10:45:57 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: RobRoy

I invented Jourbalism and Jourbalist. Can you spot where they came from?


25 posted on 07/19/2010 11:02:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Soapbox & Ballot Box or Ammo Box.)
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To: RobRoy
Somebody texted so much it became a verb.

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44 posted on 07/19/2010 11:38:26 PM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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To: RobRoy
According to Merriam-Webster, it's been a word since 1981.

Of course, any English speaker with a brain would know what it means without needing a dictionary.

47 posted on 07/19/2010 11:51:35 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: RobRoy

What ticks me off is the time I accidently used the term, “homocide”. I meant “homicide” of course. But killing of homosexuals is now a word one can easily stumble into thanks to a leftist-run spellcheck system.


67 posted on 07/20/2010 7:43:47 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (It takes courage to stay on Monster Ping. [Link in profile.])
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