From fredz@mindspring.com Wed Jan 1 16:25:46 2003 Received: from mxu7.u.washington.edu (mxu7.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.165]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h020PjCK029600 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 16:25:45 -0800 Received: from barry.mail.mindspring.net (barry.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.25]) by mxu7.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h020PhJV028276 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 16:25:43 -0800 Received: from 1cust198.tnt8.rdu1.da.uu.net ([67.240.137.198] helo=oemcomputer) by barry.mail.mindspring.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18TtB8-0006nv-00 for classics@u.washington.edu; Wed, 01 Jan 2003 19:25:42 -0500 Message-ID: <000801c2b1f4$06e67ba0$c689f043@oemcomputer> From: "Fred Zimmerman" To: Subject: Re: Overused words 2002 Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 19:15:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=XX, Probability=20%, Report="RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM, USER_AGENT_OE, X_OSIRU_DUL, X_OSIRU_DUL_FH, __EVITE_CTYPE, __HAS_MIMEOLE, __HAS_MSMAIL_PRI, __HAS_OUTLOOK_IN_MAILER, __HAS_X_MAILER, __HAS_X_PRIORITY" They overlooked the over-used famously. -----Original Message----- From: Dan Tompkins To: classics@u.washington.edu Date: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 9:06 AM Subject: Overused words 2002 Here is the URL for the annual list of overused words. It includes at least one phrase ('that said' -- a genitive absolute? -- that I'm partial to, but such is life). All in all, a useful piece: http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current/default.html Daniel P. Tompkins Director, Intellectual Heritage Program Temple University 214 Anderson Hall, 1114 West Berks Street Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090 215/204 4900; 215/204-2359 (fax) pericles@temple.edu Check our website: http://courses.temple.edu/ih .