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Tangential: why use a rare (and dying![0]) word for turns down ? I had to look up whether he was unhappy about it, disapproving of it, or turned it down. [0]:
by microcolonel 10y ago
Tangential: why use a rare (and dying![0]) word for turns down ? I had to look up whether he was unhappy about it, disapproving of it, or turned it down.
[0]: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=spurn&year_start=1600&year_end=2004&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cspurn%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=spurn&year_sta...
- swang 10y agospurn is not a rare word. even according to your link its use has held since pretty much the 1980s.
- gaius 10y agoI saw someone use the phrase "spurned into action" the other day, which may be an autocorrect fail but if not it was a clever usage of the word.
- scentoni 10y agoFor clarification: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spurn#Verb https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spurn#Verb https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spur#Verb https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spur#Verb
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