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Oxford, Cambridge and Merriam-Webster say no.
by 0db532a0 8y ago
Oxford, Cambridge and Merriam-Webster say no.
- nkurz 8y agoWhy do you say this? And why phrase it so tersely? Merriam-Webster at least (the only one I've checked) says that "deep-seated" is the only correct version: Definition of deep-seated 1 : situated far below the surface 2 : firmly established https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deep-seated “deep-seeded” The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deep-seeded
- 0db532a0 8y agoI was trying to make it clear that whiddershins was wrong to say that ‘deep seated’ is the correct usage in contrast to ‘deep-seated’ when Oxford, Cambridge and Merriam-Webster say that ‘deep-seated’ is indeed a correct usage. P.S. Inconsistency: I assumed that whiddershins was complaining about the hyphen, rather than correcting ‘seeded’, which had been changed to ‘seated’ by the time I first saw it.
- nkurz 8y agoI see. You were pointing out the hyphenation or lack thereof? I think you might have missed that the earlier discussion was regarding "seated" versus "seeded". Thus your brevity made it looked like you were claiming that the "seeded" form was correct. I don't think anyone else was concerned about the hyphenation.
- 0db532a0 8y agoYes, I was indeed concerned by my wrongly perceived concern of whiddershins over the parent’s usage of the hyphen.
- lovemenot 8y agoNow we have three variants in the wild. The correctly folded "deep-seated" and its harmless but slightly anomalous "deep seated". Worryingly, there's this new configuration "deep seeded" that a significant but unknown number of HN readers may have been exposed to. Although the original infection source has been neutralised, we must remain vigilant against sporadic recurrence in future.