Words that Exist but Shouldn't.

[RedmanWasHere]

So many words in the dictionary at our disposal yet there are some that shouldn't be in there.

I'm starting this with Rightly and Wrongly.

Surely Correctly and Incorrectly would suffice.

 

[Gough]

There's too many words!!!! Let's cull some, the OED is too big, and heavy.

 

[peasantbruh69]

All the words added to the dictionary over the last decade or so

 

[RedmanWasHere]

There's too many words!!!! Let's cull some, the OED is too big, and heavy.

I came across a dictionary earlier in the week numbered past 2200 pages.

 

[Doss]

If you eliminated every potential tautology, you wouldn't be left with many words.

 

[Hard Ball Get]

Vocabulary lesson thread...

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Selfie

 

[CakeEater]

Cumquat

 

[rippersnipper]

Wasn't an emoji word of the year last year? Burn it

 

[SugarShane]

So many words in the dictionary at our disposal yet there are some that shouldn't be in there.

I'm starting this with Rightly and Wrongly.

Surely Correctly and Incorrectly would suffice.

I disagree. Rightly and wrongly can be used with moral connotations, where correctly and incorrectly would not suffice.

"He paid for it so it's rightly his."

 

[TheWoodenSlug]

Plus, 'daily, nightly and ever so correctly' just doesn't have the same ring to it.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

You're right though, we could get rid of a lot of words.

eg we have the word "good". That's all we need. We don't need "bad", if something isn't good we can just use "ungood". If it's really good we don't need words like "great" or "excellent", we can just use "plusgood" or "doubleplusgood".

We need to get a government department or something onto this.

 

[ioppolo]

Yolo, Swag etc. **** knows why they were added.

 

[Natho]

Cumquat

That word just looks horrid

 

[Scotland]

English being a Germanic language needs more compound words.

 

[Spongebob]

Irregardless of how big the dictionary is, there are many perfectly cromulent words to embiggen your vocabulary.

Pusillanimous

 

[Forward Press]

"Dear Mr Prime Minister, there are too many words in the dictionary. Please eliminate 300. PS I am not a crackpot."

 

[FootyJunkie]

amazeball

 

[Mofra]

 

[Procrastinator35]

2 words used in conjunction, usually by a certain US govt dept,: 'Collateral damage.'

 

[worbod]

Metrosexual: get rid of it
also
Whatevs: kill it
and
Mangina: scratch it (so to speak)

 

[raskolnikov]

Carlton

 

[exe ex machina]

I thought about it again today and resigned myself to it

 

[Damon_3388]

Yolo, Swag etc. **** knows why they were added.

What's just as bad is when people who use these words claim to be doing it ironically, even though they're the only ones keeping it alive.

 

[NotAMagpieBogan]

Metrosexual: get rid of it
also
Whatevs: kill it
and
Mangina: scratch it (so to speak)

I don't even know the difference between all the sexuals to be honest