Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Fake Words

The following are NOT words:

irregardless
flustrated
fustrated
supposably
laxadaisacal
copastatic
exspecially (or exspresso, or any other word that begins with an "es" and gets an "x" wrongly inserted)

Regular usage of these fake words as though they were real words is both egregious and unacceptable.

Along the same vein, the following phrase drives me nuts:

I could care less. (That makes no sense. It should be "I could not care less." For obvious reasons).

1 comment:

sandra said...

somehow supposably, which has no business being a word, has worked itself into the dictionary. lamesauce. (i'm coining that before merriam-webster steals it from me!)

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/supposably