suffice(d) (it) to say

[Gordon, Matthew J.]

For the record, it wasn't my f-word. I was quoting the forum post that I linked.

Many people are interested, as a matter of scholarship, in non-linguists' views on language correctness, and the poster's comments spoke to that. Did you not treat vulgarities when you were respelling words in truespel? Are they not part of the language and thus not part of something worth studying?


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From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Tom Zurinskas
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Subject:      Re: suffice(d) (it) to say
 
I for one don't appreciate the gratuitous f-word vulgarity.  You shame us.  Knock it off.


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
see truespel.com



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> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:59:16 -0600
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> Subject: suffice(d) (it) to say
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> 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
>
> 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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