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> ... the sites mentioned above have been keeping up to date, complimented [sic] brilliantly by ... * sigh * ... the desired word is not "complimented", it's
by lutusp 14y ago
> ... the sites mentioned above have been keeping up to date, complimented [sic] brilliantly by ...
* sigh * ... the desired word is not "complimented", it's "complemented".
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/04/compliment-or-complement/ http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/04/compliment-or-com...
- EliRivers 14y agoUpvote for correcting a common mistake, massive downvote for doing it with a remarkably patronising * sigh *.
- derleth 14y agoAlso, 'television' is not a word.
- ZoFreX 14y agoWhat?
- derleth 14y agoIt's a barbarism, a mixing of Greek and Latin roots into the same word. Barbarisms are errors in usage. "'Television' is one of the most recent offspring of linguistic miscegenation." -- Leslie A. White, The Science of Culture, 1949 http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/barbarismterm.htm http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/barbarismterm.htm
- ZoFreX 14y agoIt's in the OED, that's good enough for me!