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OT Gender pay gap
On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 10:41:58 +0000, (Roger Hayter)
wrote:
Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Roger Hayter
wrote:
I wonder if comprehendible is in the same state of development as
'irregardless'? In other words, it is so widely used by relatively new,
or ex-colonial, English speakers who do not know the word
'comprehensible' that it is in at least the New World dictionaries, but
it still sounds wrong to more widely read English speakers.
'irregardless' is not a word.
Neither is 'comprehendible'; but both are in recent editions of
American dictionaries.
And more importantly, in my Forte Agents spell checker. ;-)
So, because of my word blindness, I typically type a word that comes
into my head as being the best to represent my meaning and often it's
spelled so incorrectly, the spelchecker doesn't have a clue as to what
I was even aiming for. There was no such issue with 'comprehendible',
I knew I'd seen it before, I knew it fitted what was trying to convey
(to those reading for content, not to critique the spelling or grammar
etc), and Agent didn't baulk at it ... shrug ;-)
Cheers, T i m
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