suffice(d) (it) to say

[Gordon, Matthew J.]

No, sorry I didn't quote it fully, it was "Sufficed to say, it was the only purchase I made from him."
Google shows many other examples of this type.


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At 2/20/2009 08:15 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
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>I've always understood this as I've always heard and seen it, "suffice
>it to say", subjunctive, = 'let it suffice  to say ...'.

So, was the "sufficed" in the instance from the blog a verb, past
tense  --  "[it] sufficed to say"?

Joel


>Mark Mandel
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>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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