Тишинуша Гамимеря (spamsink) wrote in linguaphiles,
Тишинуша Гамимеря
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Word usage policy

In a somewhat lighthearted newspaper column (dead link - the article had been removed) dealing with roads, traffic and commuting issues in a question and answer format a reader asks ...to coin a name for extreme speeders? Road rockets or road missiles doesn't quite do it -- not sufficiently prerogative. [Googling for "not sufficiently prerogative" in quotes may help.]

Isn't a newspaper usually allowed to correct readers' letters it publishes for spelling, grammar, and word usage? I cannot believe that neither the columnist nor the editor doesn't know the difference between "prerogative" and "pejorative".
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  • Interpretation of the Legend

    (inscriptions on the Kushan Kingdom coins / надписи на монетах Кушанского царства)

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    I would be most grateful if anyone could help me out with a Spanish idiom, an expression appearing in a discussion of torture from the late 18th…

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