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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Botherations?

Is using the plural of botheration correct?
  

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In what context would you want to use the plural of this informal exclamation?

  • In what context would you want to use the plural of this informal exclamation?
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In what context would you want to use the plural of this informal exclamation?
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More or less as a synonym for troubles, for example:

All the botherations in my life
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I had a hunch that Mark Twain used this word, and indeed he did! But most contemporary English speakers would never have heard it. Its usage peaked around the 1830s.

A Tramp Abroad (1880)
Volume I p 211.
The gorge under out feet afforded room in the grassy level at its head for a cosy and delightful human net, shut away from the world and its
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Alright! Thanks, it is a blank check for future extravagances.

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