suffice(d) (it) to say

[Scot LaFaive]

>You shame us.  Knock it off.

I'm not shamed. We are adults here, so I don't think we need to reprimand
each other's language for vulgarities.

Scot


On 2/20/09, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> I for one don't appreciate the gratuitous f-word vulgarity.  You shame
> us.  Knock it off.
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> > Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:59:16 -0600
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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:
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> > 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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