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User Name | Thread Name | Subject | Posted |
Joe_F | BS: Language Pet Peeves (2488* d) | RE: BS: Language Pet Peeves | 21 Jul 23 |
"Comprise" might have been a useful word if we had kept it in the sense it once had -- as a synonym of "include" that differs in promising a complete list. However, I'm afraid that's a lost cause. For most people these days "comprise" is a fancy version of "compose" -- and the OED tells us that that sense it goes back to the 18th century. It still sounds like a malapropism to me. |