To: rockrr
“Notice how few online dictionaries even bother with word etymology now?”
FWIW, my source did, had to click on “Word Origin”.
12 posted on
07/09/2015 11:55:06 AM PDT by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: treetopsandroofs
My pet peeve: improper use of "that" instead of "who". Example:
He was the man that robbed the store.
It should be:
He was the man who robbed the store.
I hear this one butchered fairly regularly on the evening news.
16 posted on
07/09/2015 12:00:45 PM PDT by
econjack
(I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
To: treetopsandroofs
One word I don't like is portmanteau, which in English is used to mean a word created by parts of two or more words. The problem is it's a French word for a saddlebag or similar such case or bag. I think a better English word would be "mashup".
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