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To: EveningStar
Since the topic is usage, may I point out that the headline should be "18 obsolete words that never should have gone out of style"?
12 posted on 05/31/2013 9:12:40 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: oblomov

At least he knew enough to include the comma with “which.”


30 posted on 05/31/2013 9:57:33 AM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: oblomov; EveningStar
Since the topic is usage, may I point out that the headline should be "18 obsolete words that never should have gone out of style"?

Nope. "That" is the wrong indicative pronoun; and you cannot "never" anything (wrong word order). Our poster did not use the title given, but even the official grammar-Nazis (editors) of the source site didn't quite get it right:

18 obsolete words, which never should have gone out of style

Since "never" is a contraction of "not ever"," one would not usually say or write, "... which not ever should have gone ..."

Furthermore, it is not customary to begin a sentence with a numeral. Also, the comma here just takes up space and is unnecessary to transmit the thought. So a better way of putting the headline in print would be:

"Eighteen obsolete words which should never have gone out of style"

There. Fixed that.

37 posted on 05/31/2013 10:19:06 AM PDT by imardmd1 (An unofficial grammar-Nazi strikes again)
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