Pickles by Brian Crane for April 20, 2017

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 7 years ago

    Good luck finding your two words in the Webster dictionary, Oxford dictionary, or even Wiktionary, Earl.

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    x_Tech  over 7 years ago

    Hey it’s right here under “S” in Funk & Wagnalls Bigly Dictionary!

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    garcoa  over 7 years ago

    If everyone starts using it, it’ll get in the dictionary. Let’s go folks.

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    laughingkitty  over 7 years ago

    I heard someone on one of those TV courtroom shows use the term “conversating” once. Then I heard someone else use it later. Of course the real word is “conversing”. I hope conversating doesn’t ever make it into the dictionary!

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    gammaguy  over 7 years ago

    How many remember when one went to an “orientation” to be “oriented”, not “orientated”?

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    Lyons Group, Inc.  over 7 years ago

    If I type any of those words Earl mentioned, the “spell check” will catch me.

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    cubswin2016  over 7 years ago

    You should challenge those words, Opal, but if you are wrong it will cost you ten points.

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    juicebruce  over 7 years ago

    Modern Morse Code (texting) has created it’s own language…….

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    TossedSaladCartoon  over 7 years ago

    He must know George W. Bush with a vocabulary like that!

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    emmapocl  over 7 years ago

    …and that’s exactly how all of these new, stupid words come into being. @Laughingkitty, I did hear that term used on Judge Judy, and several times afterward. I would be happy if people just stopped saying “I seen” instead of “I saw.” We sound so ignorant, as Americans who can’t speak English.

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    magicwalnut  over 7 years ago

    Pickles is reliably my first out loud laugh of the day. Maybe I should just delete everything else and get on with my chores?

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    nosirrom  over 7 years ago

    Ooh, somebody’s feathers are being rufflefied.

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 7 years ago

    Dictionaries do not tell you what words you can and can not use; they tell you what words are or have been used.

    And they don’t report all those with limited usage. Even when usage is common, dictionaries sometimes suffer a lag.

    It is not Earl’s fault that he is a pioneer, a visionary and creative.

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    Chris Jones Premium Member over 7 years ago

    I think civil discussitation is more productive than argufying.

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    Germanshepherds4ever  over 7 years ago

    “Conversated” ans “tooken”; two of Judge Judy’s favorites!!! Stay in school, folks!!

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    cuzinron47  over 7 years ago

    Earl said them so now they are words. Frankly, I think ‘safetify’ would make a good word. It’s concise and to the point.

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    mggreen  over 7 years ago

    Beefafied, Porkafied, Beaconsfield, Smokefied. Earl has been watching too many pizza commercials . . .

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    1MadHat Premium Member over 7 years ago

    “Argufy” is an adjective. Earl should use the verb form, “Argucate”.

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    Number Three  over 7 years ago

    Apparently “Worser” isn’t a word even though I’ve heard it loads of times.

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    alondra  over 7 years ago

    I just thought of another one. Writers make this mistake ALL the time! Mistaking both for each. “I poured us both a cup of coffee.” NO! It’s “I poured us each a cup of coffee” unless we are both going to drink out of the same cup.

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    JP Steve Premium Member over 7 years ago

    Is argufying with Opal the same as deathdefying?

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