James L.
Fidelholtz wrote:
> My personal reaction is that it is British,
but I would say that about
any marginally acceptable collocation that I personally don't use ('Blame
the Brits' syndrome).
any marginally acceptable collocation that I personally don't use ('Blame
the Brits' syndrome).
That's funny. My personal reaction to any marginally
acceptable collocation that I personally don't use is that it's American
;-)
A number of posters seem to think that I was somehow
attacking someone or something. If "lesser used" is now an extablished term we
will just have to learn to live with it, as we have done with "Machine
Translation", another terrible misnomer. (And while I am being a grumpy
proscriptive recidivist, the use of "gender" to mean "sex"). I just felt
that "less" was already a comparative form, but as we all know, language ain't
logical. Anyway, back to work on one of the morer used
langauges.
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