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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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Phantastic vs phantastical - what's correct
phantastical or phantastical?
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These are old-fashioned spellings. The modern spellings are "fantastic" and "fantastical". e.
- These are old-fashioned spellings.
- The modern spellings are "fantastic" and "fantastical".
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- something like "weird" or "unreal", but the modern informal meaning of "excellent" now dominates.
- "fantastical", a much less common word, retains the original meaning.
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These are old-fashioned spellings. The modern spellings are "fantastic" and "fantastical". The word "fantastic" originally meant existing only as a fantasy, i.e. something like "weird" or "unreal", but the modern informal meaning of "excellent" now dominates. "fantastical", a much less common word, retains the original meaning.
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