suffice(d) (it) to say

[Mark Mandel]

I've always understood this as I've always heard and seen it, "suffice
it to say", subjunctive, = 'let it suffice  to say ...'.

Mark Mandel



On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Gordon, Matthew J.
<GordonMJ at missouri.edu> wrote:
> I know the idiom as "suffice it to say" and I've heard "suffice to say" =
> but I saw "sufficed to say" in a blog today which was a new one for me. =
> It's not quite an eggcorn but something maybe. It's not in Brians's list =
> of errors. Interestingly when I googled on "sufficed to say" the first =
> result I came up with was a query about which is the right form with =
> some nice reasoning:
>
> http://soundopinions.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=3D10587
>
> Quote:=20
>
> "sufficed to say"
> "suffice to say"
> "suffice it to say"
>
> i've seen all three. are any improper usages? if not, do they all mean =
> exactly the same thing?
>
> i know that 'sufficed' is an actual word, so i just assumed that the =
> first phrase was correct and the other two were created through knowing =
> the phrase but putting it to paper improperly. but then i saw the third =
> one in an advertisement on the el, so i guess that one's correct too?
>
> fucking english language
>
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