July 5, 2014 Two: Words That Are Not Words We do not say that someone is honester than someone else, and so it follows that we would likewise not say “so-and-so is the honestest person I know.”* Yet we would have little trouble saying “When you use the word stupider, it makes you sound like the stupidest person in the room.” All Excerpts From Shea, Ammon. “Bad English.” Penguin Group, USA, 2014-06-03. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.
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