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I find "creditworthiness" to be an exceptionally inelegant turn of phrase.
by jazzyjackson 4y ago
I find "creditworthiness" to be an exceptionally inelegant turn of phrase.
- nonethewiser 4y agoOk. Why? You could also use credit but creditworthiness works better for both contexts. I figure you’re just being snarky but still.
- dredmorbius 4y agoComes quite naturally if you're familiar with German word construction. That said, it doesn't seem to have emerged into widespread use until well after the 1950s, so would have been a peculiar choice for a 19th century author: <https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=creditworthiness&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=en-2012&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=creditworthine...>