Oh my … really? What is our language coming to?
See our series on Nouns gone bad:
May 21, 2011 by grammarcops
Oh my … really? What is our language coming to?
See our series on Nouns gone bad:
Posted in General, GrammarGag Reel (fun stuff), GrammarGarnish (wordplay), GrammarGripes (pet peeves) | Tagged confusion, English, goof, grammar, language, noun, pet peeve, salads, sizzler, usage, verb, vocabulary, words, writing | 2 Comments
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verb every noun/kill every prescriptivist
This noun going bad looks like a game a little kid would play … or misspeak of someone who learned English as a 2nd language.
But one of my favorites:
“I am minuspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericabobulations.”
– Edmund Blackadder to Dr Samuel Johnson, author of the Dictionary, in the British TV series, Balckadder 3