As Arlo Guthrie said to the sergeant at the draft board in New York City. Me, I’m saying it to Microsoft. My Word program just accused me of a comma fault. I will listen to Microsoft’s advice on English usage just as soon as they stop recognizing ‘miniscule’ as a word. It isn’t ‘mini-‘ anything, I say through clenched teeth; ‘minus’ is Latin for ‘less.’
I’m not stuck in the 1590s or the 1950s. For example, I think ‘minimart’ is a perfectly cromulent word.
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