suffice(d) (it) to say

[Tom Zurinskas]

I for one don't appreciate the gratuitous f-word vulgarity.  You shame us.  Knock it off.


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:59:16 -0600
> From: GordonMJ at MISSOURI.EDU
> Subject: suffice(d) (it) to say
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: "Gordon, Matthew J."
> Subject: suffice(d) (it) to say
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> 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
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> 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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