Have you ever read any of the more disputatious Manual of Style talk pages?
Carcharoth On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Fred Bauder<[email protected]> wrote: > I suppose, as in matters of internet deportment, civility, we must also > accept the burden of maintaining the standard for English usage, global > English usage. It is a grim and dreary business, but I must admit it is > our responsibility. > > Fred > >> Fred Bauder wrote: >>>> For a change, something on English usage. A trawl through some usage >>>> books tells me nothing much about "most well known", which I'm >>>> convinced >>>> is a solecism, and should be "best-known". The hyphenation I think is >>>> standard anyway. Sadly Google believes there are 11,000 instances for >>>> "most well known" on enWP, and I'd prefer none to be in article space. >>>> >>>> Charles >>>> >>> >>> Well, both expressions, both with and without hyphen, seem to be in >>> general use. Now that you've mentioned it, I can't recall which of the >>> four possibilities I habitually use. Right now "best known" seems best, >>> but I wouldn't waste one second changing a most well known into a best >>> known. >>> >> Ah ... I would. How about "much more well known", versus "better-known", >> because our general style tends to understatement? Anyway I have been >> zapping those. Any such trawl finds other problems to fix. >> >> Charles >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
