Fun has one syllable. Most of us also learn from Shirley Jackson or somewhere else that blindly, unquestioningly following the status quo is not a recipe for success. According to COCA , newspapers like The New York Times and USAToday and even academic articles have printed the words dozens of times, but always, of course, quoting someone else saying it, and usually a teenager or young person.
If professionals were to use the word without being facetious or campy, then they would probably be ridiculed for it. But why? On what grounds? Viewed in that light, lexicography sounds like one of the funnest professions I could imagine. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading The corpus examples are especially convincing. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
He told me it wasn't a word and suggested I use the word plot. I think not. Many august sources have decided that strategize is not a word. These range from various spell-check programs to Urban Dictionary , whose current top entry for this reads "A contemporary non-word that has gained acceptance as appropriate business terminology. Strategize is not entirely confined to the realm of business terminology, nor is it entirely contemporary, unless one considers the presidency of Andrew Jackson to be contemporary, as our earliest known citation for the word with a British spelling comes during his first term in office.
Strategize is found in consistent use throughout the 19th century, and at least initially appears to have little to do with the world of business. And such wire-working and laughable schemes to defeat it, I never saw nor thought could be strategized in the American Senate.
Many people are unsure whether legit is itself legit, and whether people who use this word should be ostracized from polite society. It is worth noting that our language is awash in similar words which have been formed by shortening an existing word, and which we use without feelings of misgiving.
Some words even come from multiple shortenings: the taxi portion of taxicab is from the word taximeter , and the cab portion comes from cabriolet a 2-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage. This particular shortening makes a certain amount of sense, as taximetercabriolet would be an unwieldy mouthful.
Legit has been used since the beginning of the 20th century as both an adjective meaning "legitimate" and as a noun referring to legitimate theater or drama. I thought to myself, what has this world come to? Our entry for ain't notes that it has been in use for over years since at least , offers examples of its use by notable figures Richard Nixon, Andy Rooney, and Mike Royko , and provides examples of its use in other aspects of popular culture such as song lyrics.
Its inclusion in the dictionary is not an official seal of approval, but an acknowledgement that it exists. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Log in Sign Up. Definition: More or Most Amusing or Enjoyable I am sad that "funner" and "funnest" are not proper words. It has been in regular use in English since the end of the 15th century, and may be found in the writing of some of our most esteemed authors: I cannot hate thee worser than I do, if thou again say "yes.
Definition: 1. In Any Manner or Respect 2. The Imperial generals were constantly out-strategised. Up Next Of Primary Importance. More Words At Play. Merriam-Webster's Words of the Week - Oct. Merriam-Webster's Words of the Week - Nov. Time Traveler. Love words? Need even more definitions? Ask the Editors 'Everyday' vs. What Is 'Semantic Bleaching'? Is funnest a word?
What everyone agrees on is the fact that fun is a noun. Yes, fun is more of an abstract idea than a physical pizza, but they both function as nouns in such a sentence. In all of the above sentences, fun is being used as if it were an adjective. Is this acceptable? That depends, largely, on whom you ask and their age.
As I mentioned above, everyone agrees that fun is a noun, and for more than years, it functioned almost exclusively as a noun. This ambiguity probably led to its misuse.
Traditionalists hold that fun can only function as an noun, while others claim it can be an adjective too. The Oxford English Dictionary states that the use of fun as an attributive adjective a fun trip is now established in informal use but is not accepted in Standard English.
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