Warning: Bad Word Ahead

Monday, August 25th, 2003 at 10:04 PM | Category: Meryl's Notes Blog 2 comments

Ben sent me an email linking to a Making Light entry. Never thought about the d*mmit vs. d*mnit issue as I’ve always used d*mmit. This all started with a blog that’s all about copyediting. I get emails from folks who catch a grammar blip on my Web site because of my gotchas. I’ve admitted it (third paragraph) since the beginning, I make mistakes.

I didn’t want to go off and pronounce who’s right and who’s wrong. Instead, I’ll let you take a look at the evidence and let you be the judge. Enjoy the laugh, I did.

The Conversatron offers its Dilbert point of view. m-w.com doesn’t have either word. Dictionary.com has the double-m one. Look what happens when you enter d*mnit in Google. What does it suggest? Arguments at MutedFaith and disArray.

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  • Posted by Teresa Nielsen Hayden on August 25th, 2003, 1:00 PM

    Google’s a decent speller, but it believes in the existence of “supercede”, so we can’t trust it to be infallible.

  • Posted by Suzanne on August 25th, 2003, 8:08 PM

    Funny, I always thought it was “damn it”… One of my favourite Thundering Curses of all time is Damnation/Tarnation! ROAR!

    One comes off as slightly stodgy when one mutters things like “Damn it all to hell!” instead of “Damnitall to Hell!”, though, no?

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