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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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To: imardmd1

No, “that” is the restrictive.

The words that should not have gone out of style are a subclass of the words that have gone out of style.


39 posted on 05/31/2013 10:24:42 AM PDT by oblomov
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