-
20
Mar
I found this article at http://newsabouttheenglishlanguage.com and thought I’d share it.
NewsAboutTheEnglishLanguage.com — March 20, 2009
Combating the Devolution of the English Language
A coalition of linguists from North America and the United Kingdom today announced that they will no longer support the use of the word “dozen” in the English language. The group’s given reason for this boycott is the “vocabularistic devolution” of the term. Over the course of past decades, the Clear Language Alliance claims, “dozen” has come to be too closely associated with the similar-sounding word “doesn’t,” a word that has clear negative connotations.
none