Enough is enough...
May 2nd 2008, 12:28 am
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Enough is enough...
...I am very tolerant of the differences between American and British English, since I'm employed to write in American English.
However, I have to put my foot down on this point.
'Embolden.'
WHAT?
That's not even a real word.
Yet it's on TV all the time, since apparently terrorists are as 'emboldened' by American weakness as typefaces are 'emboldened' when you use the 'bold' button.
However, I have to put my foot down on this point.
'Embolden.'
WHAT?
That's not even a real word.
Yet it's on TV all the time, since apparently terrorists are as 'emboldened' by American weakness as typefaces are 'emboldened' when you use the 'bold' button.
May 2nd 2008, 12:52 am
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Re: Enough is enough...
...I am very tolerant of the differences between American and British English, since I'm employed to write in American English.
However, I have to put my foot down on this point.
'Embolden.'
WHAT?
That's not even a real word.
Yet it's on TV all the time, since apparently terrorists are as 'emboldened' by American weakness as typefaces are 'emboldened' when you use the 'bold' button.
However, I have to put my foot down on this point.
'Embolden.'
WHAT?
That's not even a real word.
Yet it's on TV all the time, since apparently terrorists are as 'emboldened' by American weakness as typefaces are 'emboldened' when you use the 'bold' button.
Its starting mate.
May 2nd 2008, 3:19 am
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Re: Enough is enough...
i have heard that term used plenty of times in the uk.
May 2nd 2008, 3:26 am
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Re: Enough is enough...
...I am very tolerant of the differences between American and British English, since I'm employed to write in American English.
However, I have to put my foot down on this point.
'Embolden.'
WHAT?
That's not even a real word.
Yet it's on TV all the time, since apparently terrorists are as 'emboldened' by American weakness as typefaces are 'emboldened' when you use the 'bold' button.
However, I have to put my foot down on this point.
'Embolden.'
WHAT?
That's not even a real word.
Yet it's on TV all the time, since apparently terrorists are as 'emboldened' by American weakness as typefaces are 'emboldened' when you use the 'bold' button.
May 2nd 2008, 3:47 am
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Re: Enough is enough...
It's just a Circumfixation, though it is in the OED.
May 2nd 2008, 3:57 am
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Re: Enough is enough...
...I am very tolerant of the differences between American and British English, since I'm employed to write in American English.
However, I have to put my foot down on this point.
'Embolden.'
WHAT?
That's not even a real word.
Yet it's on TV all the time, since apparently terrorists are as 'emboldened' by American weakness as typefaces are 'emboldened' when you use the 'bold' button.
However, I have to put my foot down on this point.
'Embolden.'
WHAT?
That's not even a real word.
Yet it's on TV all the time, since apparently terrorists are as 'emboldened' by American weakness as typefaces are 'emboldened' when you use the 'bold' button.
May 2nd 2008, 4:00 am
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Re: Enough is enough...
Roland, that is a word. Truly.
Just mark it down on your calender as the day you made your first step into an embiggened vocabulary.
Just mark it down on your calender as the day you made your first step into an embiggened vocabulary.
May 2nd 2008, 4:08 am
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Re: Enough is enough...
...I am very tolerant of the differences between American and British English, since I'm employed to write in American English.
However, I have to put my foot down on this point.
'Embolden.'
WHAT?
That's not even a real word.
Yet it's on TV all the time, since apparently terrorists are as 'emboldened' by American weakness as typefaces are 'emboldened' when you use the 'bold' button.
However, I have to put my foot down on this point.
'Embolden.'
WHAT?
That's not even a real word.
Yet it's on TV all the time, since apparently terrorists are as 'emboldened' by American weakness as typefaces are 'emboldened' when you use the 'bold' button.
May 2nd 2008, 4:09 am
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May 2nd 2008, 4:19 am
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Re: Enough is enough...
Burglarised. That's probably no2 on my list following healthful.
May 2nd 2008, 4:24 am
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Re: Enough is enough...
It's HEALTHY. Not healthful. Or HEALTHILY. Not healthfully. :curse:
May 2nd 2008, 4:41 am
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Re: Enough is enough...
Healthful is an interesting one. In British English it is rarely, if ever, used any more and is considered archaic and awkward, whereas in American English it's generally considered a synonym of healthy, unless you're trying to be pretentious and use the distinction that healthy means something is in good health, whereas healthful means something that is conducive to good health, i.e. a person is healthy, food is healthful.