The first four words should have answered that one David. I will never forget Alistair Cooke (Cook?) describing another abomination to the English language many years ago: "burglarized" - in his radio programme 'Letter from America'.
Cheers. Graham W ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: mogtalk2 Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 6:16 PM Subject: [mogtalk2] grammar Why ugly big "*usage" when "use" does just as well? TC David. -----Original Message----- From: Charles Hill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 09 June 2012 04:33 To: mogtalk2 Subject: Re: [mogtalk2] Fw: If my body was a car-non-mog & grammar Owen, I am an American and copyrighted is in common *usage as an adjective. Even the US Patent Office uses the term. Charles Hill On 6/8/2012 6:06 PM, Owen Jenkins wrote: > Charles, > There is no verb "to copyright". If there were, its past participle > would be "copyright" not "copyrighted". "Copyright" is a noun and an > adjective. So you would be better saying that the piece is copyright. > There is no such thing as "copyrighting" a work, at least in Britain. > One may claim copyright in a work. One may also own the copyright in a > work. One may register copyright in a work. If you want to know a bit > more about copyright, read this: www.copyrightservice.co.uk . > > Whilst the non-word "copyrighted" is in common use on the internet, it > is not English. I'm not convinced it's correct American, either. I > even have my dobts about it being correct in Nigerian English. ------------------------------------------- View posts on The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ [http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/] Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=22459785&id_secret=22459785-4a39ddf8 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
