Fred Bauder wrote: >> For a change, something on English usage. A trawl through some usage >> books tells me nothing much about "most well known", which I'm convinced >> is a solecism, and should be "best-known". The hyphenation I think is >> standard anyway. Sadly Google believes there are 11,000 instances for >> "most well known" on enWP, and I'd prefer none to be in article space. >> >> Charles >> > > Well, both expressions, both with and without hyphen, seem to be in > general use. Now that you've mentioned it, I can't recall which of the > four possibilities I habitually use. Right now "best known" seems best, > but I wouldn't waste one second changing a most well known into a best > known. > Ah ... I would. How about "much more well known", versus "better-known", because our general style tends to understatement? Anyway I have been zapping those. Any such trawl finds other problems to fix.
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