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>[#] "comprised of" is a correct usage, for anyone sucked in by the poor guy obsessed with editing it out of Wikipedia (many words have opposing meanings and so
by simplemath 12y ago
>[#] "comprised of" is a correct usage, for anyone sucked in by the poor guy obsessed with editing it out of Wikipedia (many words have opposing meanings and some great English poetry depends on this; the term causes no confusion amongst native speakers; etymology is irrelevant to modern usage...)
The tyranny of the minority, in this case, is comprised of a single man, whose idiosyncratic reign of grammatical terror is now reaching out from Wikipedialand into the Greater Internet.
I find this all very amusing.