Bob wrote: >Finally, July arrived >and old QE II herself came to Boston, stepped up to the lectern at Old City >Hall and said something like, "I'd like to congratulate the American people >on the occasion of their bicentenary." > >DOH! > >"Bicentennial" is an adjective and "bicentenary" is the noun -- and about 200 >million of us had been using the word "bicentennial" incorrectly! (Most of us >still do use it incorrectly. I see "bicentennial" used as a noun all the >time, even in places such as the NY Times.) > >Got to hand it to the old girl. She knows her English.
LOL! My favorite Bad American English is "Drive Safe" and its variants. Makes the editor in me want to respond "Speak Grammatic!" Gil
