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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] <blockquote>"Well, that's how it's pronounced over here at this. 'Look at Tim's beard' sounds like 'Looket Tim's beard', with the first two words run together. But I've never heard 'Look it' by itself."</blockquote> Well, even though Andrew wrote "look it", I think Americans normally spell it "lookit". Though it's probably usually pronounced more like "looket" or "lookut". But, yes, we do use it by itself, without explicitly stating what object is to be lookited. <blockquote>"On top of that it's just wrong. What REALLY gets on my goat - and it's REALLY prevalent in scientific papers... the word 'commonest' ARGH! It's 'most common' - but laziness has allowed 'commonest' to creep it's way into the lexicon."</blockquote> Well, Oxford lists "commoner" as the comparative form of "common". Dictionary.com has two entries that list "commoner" and "commonest" as the comparative and superlative forms, and they don't mention "more/most common" at all. <blockquote>"It'd be like saying beautifulest."</blockquote> Not really. Single-syllable adjectives typically take "-er" and "-est". Three or more syllables, and you'd usually use "more" and "most". But disyllabic adjectives are kind of 50/50 on using "-er"/"-est" or "more"/"most". [/QB][/QUOTE]
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