Wednesday, March 13, 2024

 

Fulsome

https://www.guernicamag.com/from-the-edges-of-a-broken-world/:
Guernica regrets having published this piece, and has retracted it. A more fulsome explanation will follow.
Isaac Asimov, quoted in William and Mary Morris, Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1975), p. 298 (s.v. fulsome):
One of my favorite criteria of illiteracy.
S.I. Hayakawa, quoted id., p. 299:
Horrors!
Orville Prescott, quoted id., p. 299:
Vile.
Long live prescriptivism.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 9:04 AM


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