Re: USAGE : ALOT: the final word
| From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 28, 2003, 5:04 |
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--- Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> One site reports that the "word" appears OFTEN
> on the
> Internet in newsgroup and forum postings by
> non-writers, but NEVER in print. It is never
> found in
> newspapers, magazines or books, with some few
> exceptions in the sports pages of small-town
> newspapers.
Oo. I guess the prescriptivists will just win the
day!
On the other hand, fuck isn't (or at least wasn't
until recently) either - this hasn't precluded
users of English from making heigh while the
Sun's up.
Padraic.
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