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Is anyone else bothered by people using the word "penultimate" when they mean "the ultimate" or "the big one" or something similar?
An ESPN sportscaster was talking about Monday's college football title game and called it "the penultimate game." It's the next-to-last game? But I thought it was the championship?
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Originally Posted by sayulita
It's one of those words like defenstration, which means to throw someone out a window. Why isn't here a specific word for throwing someone out the door, or down a shaft, or off a cliff, or into a volcano? But there is a specific word for throwing someone out a window? Do we really need that? One of the many magical mysteries of the English language.
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