[Ads-l] "best-known" avoidance

[Jonathan Lighter]

For several years (five? ten? more?) I've been noticing that cable news
people have conspicuously dropped "best-known" in favor of the pointlessly
extended "most well-known."

Weird hypercorrection?  Or what?

OED has "best-known," without comment, from 1541.

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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