I was listening to “These Days” on KPBS this morning and heard Tom Fudge use the word “worser.” My immediate and visceral reaction was, “Dude, that’s so not a word.”
But I was wrong.
Hearing “worser” makes my ears roll up but - get this - it’s listed in three dictionaries! How can that be, and why didn’t someone tell me? And what the heck is happening to "good English"?
The whole experience makes me feel, well, worser than I thought.
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3 comments:
WTF??? I'm floored.
Wow, thanks for the vocabulary lesson.
Ancora imparo!
I've just read your blog and I just want to say you're hilarious! I'm glad I'm not the only one who ranted about "your" versus "you're" in my blog. Thank you, thank you, thank you for knowing the difference!
Hey, I hear the folks at KPBS are pretty smart and that they wouldn't use words that couldn't be found in a dictionary, afterall, with Martha and Richard in the building we all watch our p's and q's, and split infinitves, and dangling particples, and . . .
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