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Sycophantic is obviously a word, because we understand what it means. Furthermore, it obviously hasn't been a word since at least 1800: https://books.google.c
by buellerbueller 10mo ago
Sycophantic is obviously a word, because we understand what it means.
Furthermore, it obviously hasn't been a word since at least 1800:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=7&case_insensitive=on&content=sycophantic https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_e...
- Lerc 10mo agoOn the other hand https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=syncophantic&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&case_insensitive=true&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=7 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=syncophantic&y...
- danielbln 10mo agoGOP wrote syncophantic, with an n. Which is not a word. Well, not a known word at least.
- nearbuy 10mo agoThey were pointing out a typo ("syncophantic").
- Lerc 10mo agoIt wasn't so much pointing it out as a typo as making myself clear. When suggesting a word is not what the writer meant, when it was also not the word that the writer wrote, it seemed wise to clarify exactly what I was talking about.