[BITList] The word UP

[John Feltham]

G'day Dave,

On 19/08/2009, at 11:48 PM, David Harvey wrote:

 > I would love to start a campaign to ban the word except as in the
 > definition as in 'towards the sky'.

 >I have a similar feeling for the word 'got', let alone the terrible
 > word 'gotten'.

I share your hatred of the word 'gotten' but - let me wake up your  
'antenna' to the word "more".

Listen to the Beeb and the ABC broadcasts and you will hear 'more  
quickly' - it's a pandemic!

What is wrong with just plain (not 'regular'),'quicker' ?

I hope that you didn't miss my use of the word, 'up' ?



ooroo

Bad typists of the word, untie.