Editing and mistakes
tanwo at hotmail.com
tanwo at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 6 17:45:24 UTC 2001
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Jennifer Piersol" <jenP_97 at y...> wrote:
> Amanda (full of questions, apparently) asked:
>
> > This is evidently one of those things that I grew up hearing and
> > using, that is acceptable in spoken colloquial English: funnest =
> > most fun. However, to my surprise, Neil's right and Word returned
> > it in a spell-check.
Curiously there is also the word funest, which means 'causing or
portending death or evil'. A slight typo and you've changed the whole
sense of a sentence! Just the adjective for You-Know-Who ...
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