odiferous

[James Smith]

Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English,
Preview Edition (v 0.9.6) gives "odiferous" and
"odiferant" as variants of "odoriferous".  I'm almost
100% sure I've never said "oderiferous"; however, I
think more than once in my life I've said "odiferous".
 One more thing to trip me up as I speak, lest I let
my ignernce show!



--- Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> Alisyn Camerota of _Fox & Friends_ just used the
> word "odiferous."  Her two co-hosts then began to
> laugh and tease her for having "been reading her
> vocabulary book."  TV news people usually make fun
> of words that might be unfamiliar to a tenth-grader.
>
>   But they didn't make fun of "odiferous" for being
> a stupidism for "odoriferous."  Google offers
> 100,000 hits.  Microsoft Word's spellchecker is said
> to accept, nay, to recommend it.
>
>   JL
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