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Brianb65101 Posted 13 years ago
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lexicography
How many teaspoonfuls of sugar do you require in your Earl Gray?
How many bulbhalfdimneongreens illuminate above the heads of lexicographers who endeavor to waste natural resources when filling their dictionaries with non-sense "words"?
How many bulbhalfdimneongreens illuminate above the heads of lexicographers who endeavor to waste natural resources when filling their dictionaries with non-sense "words"?
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What is your vocabulary question, Brian?
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I'm just questioning a "word" that is found in the dicitonary.
It contains no hyphen, is missing an 'L', has a superfluous adjective (full) which shouldn't be there in the first place, and probably worst of all, the adjective is pluralized!
It is absurd when you consider the paper and ink wasted in order to be able to boast of a "comprehensive" dictionary.
It contains no hyphen, is missing an 'L', has a superfluous adjective (full) which shouldn't be there in the first place, and probably worst of all, the adjective is pluralized!
It is absurd when you consider the paper and ink wasted in order to be able to boast of a "comprehensive" dictionary.
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brianb65101I'm just questioning a "word" that is found in the dicitonary.What word, what dictionary?
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I refer to "teaspoonfuls", as mentioned above and then satirized by a non-sense word of my own creation, "bulbhalfdimneongreens".
It's in Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary, and also online on dictionary.com.
If it's a teaspoon, as opposed to a half, eighth, etc. of one, there's no need to allude to it's "ful"ness or lack thereof.
In any case, there's no reason to pluralize a
It's in Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary, and also online on dictionary.com.
If it's a teaspoon, as opposed to a half, eighth, etc. of one, there's no need to allude to it's "ful"ness or lack thereof.
In any case, there's no reason to pluralize a
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brianb65101The fact that it's in the dictionary and in common usage (or rather, mis-usage) doesn't make it right.How do you judge 'rightness', then? What do you think of 'handfuls'?
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When joining two separate words, they should be hyphenated.
Secondly, the word 'full' is spelled thusly, f-u-l-l.
Hand-full would be right.
Worse though would be adding an 's' to the end of it, effectively pluralizing the adjectival part of the word.
That would be like asking a person how many apple reds they have, instead of how many red apples.
People don't want to bother wit
Secondly, the word 'full' is spelled thusly, f-u-l-l.
Hand-full would be right.
Worse though would be adding an 's' to the end of it, effectively pluralizing the adjectival part of the word.
That would be like asking a person how many apple reds they have, instead of how many red apples.
People don't want to bother wit
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I did attempt to do so when I wrote:
When joining two separate words, they should be hyphenated. Secondly, the word 'full' is spelled thusly, f-u-l-l. Hand-full would be right. Worse though would be adding an 's' to the end of it, effectively pluralizing the adjectival part of the word. That would be like asking a person how many apple reds they have, instead of how many red apples.
When joining two separate words, they should be hyphenated. Secondly, the word 'full' is spelled thusly, f-u-l-l. Hand-full would be right. Worse though would be adding an 's' to the end of it, effectively pluralizing the adjectival part of the word. That would be like asking a person how many apple reds they have, instead of how many red apples.
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brianb65101Hand-full would be right.I think it's about time to end this thread.
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That's up to you.
I wasn't looking for a debate site when I found this one; I was looking for a venue to express opinions.
Our language is full of idiosyncrasies and contradictory grammatical rules, and I personally find it fun to poke fun at some of the cheesier examples of these.
If you want to take it as an affront to your sensibilities, that's your choice.
If you happen to be a
I wasn't looking for a debate site when I found this one; I was looking for a venue to express opinions.
Our language is full of idiosyncrasies and contradictory grammatical rules, and I personally find it fun to poke fun at some of the cheesier examples of these.
If you want to take it as an affront to your sensibilities, that's your choice.
If you happen to be a
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