[Ads-l] the unhappy hazards of English

[Laurence Horn]

> On Sep 15, 2017, at 11:17 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Whatever happened to "haphazard"?
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> DanG

Doesn’t look adjective-y enough.  Better slap on an -ous ending to be on the safe side.  Works for “hazardous” after all.


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> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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>> A student, commenting on the seemingly random placement of windows on a
>> campus building, identified the configuration as "haphazerous."  Obviously
>> she meant to say "haphazardous."
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>> --Charlie
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