Marsha Hallett wrote: > > > Oh dear, Marsha, you have struck a deadly blow to my heart. I have been > > involved in Planned Preventative Maintenance for most of my adult life. > > And recently the emphasis is on preventative medicine. Preventive is not > > in my little Oxford dictionary but preventative is. The Atlantic makes > > the difference. :} > > > I wish you much peace and joy in your new journey. > > Love, > > Tony > > Dear Tony, Thanks for the good wishes! Equally good ones be upon your head! > And sorry about the deadly blow; use CS so it won`t be! :o) > I always hated the double in "preventative" because we prevent, we don`t > preventate, which is what the double implies! You have to go to the root > word. > Then I hate the way some folks say avery for aviary, and those Aussies, God > love `em, they can`t say a proper vowel sound to save `em! > Dynt for don`t, for example. Hmmm, perhaps it is because many of the orginal > settlers were prisoners, who generally weren`t of the Upper Crust? > Then there are the folks in Massachusetts! They say pak the cah in Havad > yad, as it is totally against their religion to pronounce the letter R! > And one more, I don`t like no double negatives!!! > NO ONE can speak as well or as correctly as we Idaho Spuds! > Nuff said... > Ouch, hey, this is all in fun, folks!! You-all don`t gotta mash me! > Love, > Marsha > Oooh, almost forgot, the worst one of all is "I axed him" for I asked him", > boy that one makes me wanna cry... > >
Hi Marsha, You are quite correct and I bow to your command of the language. I unpacked Fowlers Modern English Usage; In the reference to long variants 'The better the writer, the shorter his words' ... those who run to long words are mainly the unskilled and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force; .... needless lengthenings of established words due to oversight or caprice: ... preventative (preventive)... It is going to be a tough one to give up. To keep this on topic. As a preventative measure I wash my veggies in water with a splash of CS before using or storing. Tony -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
