> Tisk Marshalee, Tisk Tisk! > > (By the way, for the Newbies out there, who missed my rant of several months ago, the word is "preventive", not "preventative", > > ie.what CS is so good at doing!) > > OK, I`ll shut up for now!!! :o) > > Love, > > Marshalee > > My 3 nearest dictionaries [each is a standard doorstop weight ;) ] say : > DK Illustrated Oxford Dictionary > lists preventative before preventive > > Reader's Digest Complete Word Finder: > lists preventative before preventive > > The Macquarie Dictionary: [standard Australian reference] > preventive [& gives definitions] then says: Also preventative. > > [I collect dictionaries, just BTW.] > > Regards, > Judith.
Dear Judith, Aha! Just goes to show that even dictionaries can be wrong! A preventive prevents, a preventative preventates. See? It is an ambiguous word. It just shows that the common misusage of a word breeds acceptance, don`t it! :o) Love, Marshalee (My most hated ever misusage is "seen" for "saw". And second are the cowboys talkin` `bout "the horse that ain`t been rode". I could kill...Arrgghhh!!!!) -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
