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Destination -- another word skunked

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Subject: Destination -- another word skunked
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 by: henh...@gmail.com - Sat, 18 Mar 2023 20:01 UTC

a word is [skunked] ------ is that usage common?

Re: Destination -- another word in danger of being skunked?

Steve Hayes (?) wrote:
> I recently saw an article headed "Places, and destinations
> along the way", which struck me as pretty weird.

[destinations along the way] is surprisingly common, now. ...sigh

> You can pass though places on your way to a destination,
> but you cannot pass through destinations on your way to a
> place. The destination is where you end up, at the end of your journey.

waht are a few other similar phrases that bother you?

Re: Destination -- another word skunked

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 by: HVS - Sun, 19 Mar 2023 15:16 UTC

On 18 Mar 2023, henh...@gmail.com wrote

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> a word is [skunked] ------ is that usage common?

-snip-

It certainly is in AUE; don't know about the outside world.

[googles]

The Merriam-Webster podcast "Word Matters" discussed "Skunked Words";
there's a transcript of it at:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-matters-podcast/episode-94-
skunked-words

(quote)

"Emily Brewster: Now, Ammon, you introduced the idea of these words
being categorized as "skunked words." That's a term that was coined
by Bryan Garner of Garner's Modern English Usage, writer of books on
legal usage and also English usage, general English usage. And my
understanding is that he coined this word specifically to refer to
this category of words that has one meaning that is fully
established, and then a new meaning develops.

(end quote)

Posters to AUE were early adopters of the term. Garner's book was
first published in 1998, and the earliest use I can find in AUE of
"skunkedin this sense was in a post by Bob Lieblich of March, 1999,
where he referenced Garner's use of the term.

--
Cheers, Harvey

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 by: henh...@gmail.com - Sun, 19 Mar 2023 17:40 UTC

On Sunday, March 19, 2023 at 8:16:33 AM UTC-7, HVS wrote:
> On 18 Mar 2023, henh...@gmail.com wrote
> >
> > a word is [skunked] ------ is that usage common?
> -snip-
>
> It certainly is in AUE; don't know about the outside world.
>
> [googles]
>
> The Merriam-Webster podcast "Word Matters" discussed "Skunked Words";
> there's a transcript of it at:
>
> https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-matters-podcast/episode-94-
> skunked-words
>
> (quote)
>
> "Emily Brewster: Now, Ammon, you introduced the idea of these words
> being categorized as "skunked words." That's a term that was coined
> by Bryan Garner of Garner's Modern English Usage, writer of books on
> legal usage and also English usage, general English usage. And my
> understanding is that he coined this word specifically to refer to
> this category of words that has one meaning that is fully
> established, and then a new meaning develops.
>
> (end quote)
>
> Posters to AUE were early adopters of the term. Garner's book was
> first published in 1998, and the earliest use I can find in AUE of
> "skunkedin this sense was in a post by Bob Lieblich of March, 1999,
> where he referenced Garner's use of the term.
>
> --
> Cheers, Harvey

Garner's Dictionary of Modern American Usage defines skunked words as “words whose meaning or usage is so disputed that using them is likely to bother or distract readers.” Let's take a look at the word 'bimonthly' as an example of a skunked word. <------------- good example....

Garner’s original example was “hopefully,”

----------- Roy Blount, Jr. has a big entry in [Alphabet Juice]

imo...... it doesn't sound bad in speech. or casual email.

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