Bill Owens wrote:
My linguist peeve is "preventative" instead of preventive


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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

1 definition(s) found

Preventative \Pre*vent"a*tive\, n.
   That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of
   preventive.

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keith whaley

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