[Past Your Eyes]

I’m sure there are lots of words in the dictionary that are made up, silly words, like “humongous”, for instance. In quite recent times someone undoubtedly put horrible and terrific together and horrific was born. Lately everyone seems to like the sound of it because it gets used to describe all kinds of things.

[JohnG45]

I’m sure there are lots of words in the dictionary that are made up, silly words, like “humongous”, for instance. In quite recent times someone undoubtedly put horrible and terrific together and horrific was born. Lately everyone seems to like the sound of it because it gets used to describe all kinds of things.

Er, did you read my whole post. The word has a Latin root. What is in recent times to you, 50 AD?

Why don't you look up the word and its root for yourself?

[Paved Paradise]

Language evolves, else we’d still speak as the pilgrims did. Thankfully, we don’t.