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Subject: Re: [OM] [OT]Irony - was Caution etc...
From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 10:22:01 -0400
Actually I have too pet peeves.  One is Utilize.  Why not just Use?????  The
other is ensure vs. insure.  If you didn't pay a premium, then you didn't
insure it.

Tom

> Right Chris. Real English. Without monster words. For example,
> when I had do "invigilation" at St. Andrews - but fortunately, my
> invigilatting days are over, at worst, I may have to be, on occasion,
> vigilant.
> Benson (who likes the accent but not the extra "u"'s either. !: )
>
> >Uh, Chris, obligated is a pretty common word 'over here' where we
> >speak
> >'real' English and don't waste time with extra u's in color and humor.
> What really bothers me though is that a perfectly good word like
> >"obliged" is discarded for a word made up from a noun =
> >obligation...
> >obligated!  By that process we might derive a monster like
> >"pressurisated"
> >from pressurisation  - what was wrong with "pressure" or even
> >"press"?
>
> >All right, I've finished :>).
> > Chris



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