tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874624.post-21954444932518551232008-04-16T12:03:00.002-10:002008-04-16T12:15:46.698-10:00i went online again today to find a word that my Franklin &amp; Macintosh Dictionaries refused to consider a real word...<br />i've done this before; and have gotten several hits on Google, suggesting that there are countless other people that consider these words real words, and given that words come from usage and not authority, i take any confirmation of them as validation.<br /><br />Todays Word: Befret. Apparently it is likely that this is a distortion of Bereft. Since they are used in the same sense.<br /><br />Another Example: Insundry or Asundry. Sundry is a real word and All &amp; Sundry is a common aphorism, Such that the Contraction of All &amp; Sundry should easily be A'sundry or Asundry.<br />Insundry is close enough. After all; You know what i mean... Don't you?<br /><br />Irregardless is in such wide usage that i don't see how anyone can argue about it anymore.<br /><br />Indescript is essentially the same as NonDescript, which means Not Noteworthy.<br /><br />i would very much like a Dictionary that keeps up with the usage of words on the internet, which is pretty close to the actual usage of words in The Spoken Form.<br />Dictionaries have always lagged behind Actual Usage, and all i want to see is that this is recognized.A Translucent Amoebaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18034434537904589240noreply@blogger.com