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about, “She has been an active member of Life Line for the past nine years?” I don’t believe “to member” will make it past the gates of Merriam-Webster.
1 doubt if “fraudsters” will make it either. That is how an FBI spokesman described perpetrators Of insurance scams. In an interview for Scripps-Howard, he said that “fraud* sters are siphoning off huge sums of money.” Etymologically speaking; there’s nothing wrong with the noun; but it looks odd.
Because I have a fondness for “couth,” as a back-formation from “uncouth,” 1 am bound to smile upon a Knight-Ridder reporter who described a trip to crowded Yellowstone National Park last year. A huge elk appeared. Tourists lifted cameras. Daredevils Vvhizzxd by on snowmobiles. The elk paid no attention. “he is nonchalant about the gathering crowds.” As for the writer: “We are chalant. We are blown away by the wonders of Yellowstone in winter.” I
There’s nothing wrong with geff ting excited. If 1 were 20 feet from $ bull elk. I’d be pretty dam chalant too.
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