On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:56:21 -0400, i18n@... <i18n@...> wrote:

> I guess this usage may now start to fall into a "pet peeve" category for
> me, just as words such as "compose/comprise" are.

I have long wondered, but it seems that the common misuse of "comprise"
stems from the idea that it's a synonym for "compose". Apparently, the
writer thinks it's a more-educated usage. Disappointment lurks, but stays
hiding too often.

I'm sorely tempted to state a few of my own especially-annoying
subliteracies. Their use could be considered almost a consensus,
constituting some of the earmarks of a Popular Dialect developing in our
midst. Do we want another spinoff from Qalam devoted primarily to
linguistics?

Regards,

--
Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass. (Not "MA")
The curious hermit -- autodidact and polymath
If you're determined to be afraid, choose wisely
what to be afraid of.