[Ads-l] I am abash=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=A8dly_?=patriotic.

[Dennis During]

I'd estimate that on Usenet about 15-20% was use of *abashedly *when
*unabashedly
*would be standard.

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 2:19 PM Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com> wrote:

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> What's the proportion of correct usage to usage as = "unabashedly"?
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>  (Question) Mark
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> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 11:22 AM Dennis During <dcduring at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Google NGrams shows that *abashedly* occurs with less than 2% of the
> > frequency of *unabashedly.*  But it has apparently been around at least
> > since the early 19th century.  Langston Hughes used it in his
> > autobiography. See entry at Wiktionary
> > <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abashedly#English> for more.
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