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Jack-in-the-box Posted 22 years ago
Vocabulary
"To advocate"
Is the verb "to advocate" obsolete, or old-fashioned?
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I don't see why it would be, Jack. Let's google it: Hmm, most of them seem to be the noun, but after receiving 3,520,000 hits, I wouldn't advocate scrapping the verb just yet.
- I don't see why it would be, Jack.
- Let's google it: Hmm, most of them seem to be the noun, but after receiving 3,520,000 hits, I wouldn't advocate scrapping the verb just yet.
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I don't see why it would be, Jack. Let's google it:
Hmm, most of them seem to be the noun, but after receiving 3,520,000 hits, I wouldn't advocate scrapping the verb just yet.
Hmm, most of them seem to be the noun, but after receiving 3,520,000 hits, I wouldn't advocate scrapping the verb just yet.
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Most likely it has become more of a 'technical' or 'professional' term than a general one, used in legalistic documents and suchlike. In modern British English the use of the word seems to suggest the user has some sort of superior power and if used by someone who doesn't hold that power can seem quite pretentious.
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