New Word?

ANNE V. GILBERT avgilbert at PRODIGY.NET
Wed Oct 10 21:05:58 UTC 2001


Bob:



> Did anyone else hear the word "permanentized" yesterday on NPR?  I believe
> that it was spoken by Kay Bailey Hutchinson.  It was a new one for me.

I don't listen to NPR any more, for reasons unrelated to new word usage.
But "permanentized"?  Sounds pretty clunky to me, and I'm fairly tolerant,
although I tend to have prescriptivist instincts.
Anne G



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