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My Interest in this was sparked by Last Night's Feedback.


Words that are now completely misused. I want educating..


The word that FB discussed was


EPICENTRE. It does not mean the centre of something but if correctly used to describe the epicentre of an earth quake would be describing the point at Ground level where the earth quake has maximum effect.



Any more anyone?

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Is there some criteria to this, at what point does misused become meaning changed over time, think 'gay' for instance.


Acronym would be another, it's generally conflated with the hypernym 'initialism'. An acronym is an initialism said as a word, like SCUBA, rather than letters such as CID (See Eye Dee).

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Which neatly brings us back to my question, when does common usage overrule incorrect usage?


All dictionaries now acknowledge the common usage of enormity, there's a quite clear etymological path for one to segue to the other for instance, and I'm already prepared to accept defeat on trope even though that's a very recent import from the states.


Ooh there's another, I'm seeing segway instead of segue a fair bit recently, that really bring on the wet clowns mantra

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