Comeuppance
Hi,
Is 'comeuppance' used in modern English? It sounds a bit old-fashioned.
"Every villain will get his comeuppance."
Thank you.
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Yes, it's OK to use. g. "that was her comeuppance".
- Yes, it's OK to use.
- g.
- "that was her comeuppance".
- Surprisingly the "ngrams" usage graph shows a fairly steady increase in usage over 100 years, and also shows that the word is a bit more common in AmE than BrE (I would have guessed the other way around).
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Yes, it's OK to use. Most commonly it is used in the expression "get one's comeuppance", but you could also say e.g. "that was her comeuppance". Surprisingly the "ngrams" usage graph shows a fairly steady increase in usage over 100 years, and also shows that the word is a bit more common in AmE than BrE (I would have guessed the other way around).
0In US English this is heard occasionally. It is used more by people over the age of 50 and in rural areas. This is rather old-fashioned, folky-type speech. I'm a native English speaker in the US, and I've never used it in my life, and have never heard it in actual speech. If I were to use it, it would be, for example, like in the following:
"Just wait, you'll get your comeuppanc
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