suffice(d) (it) to say

[Tom Zurinskas]

Sorry.  You were just passing it on.

Yes.  The word "fuck" is in my dictionary.  I actually have the correct pronunciation that few know.  It's pronounced ~flub.  Strange how the alphabetic principle doesn't apply very well here.  They really ~flubd up~ up when they tradspeld that one.  We should change the tradspeleeng to "flub".  That would be more consistent to the pronunciation.

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



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> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:57:45 -0600
> From: GordonMJ at MISSOURI.EDU
> Subject: Re: suffice(d) (it) to say
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> For the record, it wasn't my f-word. I was quoting the forum post that I =
> linked.
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> 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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> I for one don't appreciate the gratuitous f-word vulgarity. You shame =
> us. Knock it off.
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> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
> see truespel.com
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>> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:59:16 -0600
>> From: GordonMJ at MISSOURI.EDU
>> 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" =3D
>> but I saw "sufficed to say" in a blog today which was a new one for =
> me. =3D
>> It's not quite an eggcorn but something maybe. It's not in Brians's =
> list =3D
>> of errors. Interestingly when I googled on "sufficed to say" the first =
> =3D
>> result I came up with was a query about which is the right form with =
> =3D
>> some nice reasoning:
>>
>> http://soundopinions.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=3D3D10587
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>> Quote:=3D20
>>
>> "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 =
> =3D
>> exactly the same thing?
>>
>> i know that 'sufficed' is an actual word, so i just assumed that the =
> =3D
>> first phrase was correct and the other two were created through =
> knowing =3D
>> the phrase but putting it to paper improperly. but then i saw the =
> third =3D
>> one in an advertisement on the el, so i guess that one's correct too?
>>
>> fucking english language
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