it's been awhile for this type of post, but since my old co-worker left, i'm left with very little material when it comes to my "almost...but not quite" posts.
however, i present to you a recent post on my online class by a classmate:
"The only strange thing was having to say "next" as we changed slides so that the web master can co-ordinate our verbiage with the correct slides!"
i'm going to say that co-ordinate does NOT need to be spelled with a hyphen? any takers on this one?
also, what is verbiage? coming to my mind immediately are words on trees. like foliage with words, not leaves.
dictionary.com has her back on verbiage - "manner or style of expressing something in words."
whatever, i'm still calling her bluff on both. dictionary.com needs a check up.
2 comments:
I didn't know verbiage was a word. I thought, if anything, it was verbage. So I looked it up on dictionary.com. It said "verbage ::: A deliberate misspelling and mispronunciation of verbiage" I'm even dumber than that student, I guess. :)
Definitely got your back on the no hyphen for "coordinated." If anything, I think that's a very old-fashioned way of spelling that word. Got.to.go.
I will confirm that "verbiage" is a word (used VERY often by folks at my office to try to explain what I do), but I don't like it. In fact, I have a personal bias against "-age" words, specifically "signage." EW. EWWW.
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