TerishD
Number of posts : 1441 Age : 64 Location : Ringgold, Louisiana Current Mood : Registration date : 2008-07-21
| Subject: Not disfavorable February 24th 2009, 10:23 am | |
| Just looked this one up. I had considered the flag from my word processor to simply be a lack of an entry in its database. I had thus left it in the text, but with the word needing to be posted in a few weeks its presence had bothered me.
DISFAVORABLE
Disfavor is a word, and I felt certain that disfavorable was a word. It is probably a word said by those around me, but disfavorable is not a word. The word is UNFAVORABLE. Why does the proper wording switch? I don't know. But I just looked it up, and the dictionary mentioned UNFAVORABLE in the listing for DISFAVOR, so I guess that I am not the only one making such a mistake. I thus am mentioning it here.
Oh, yes, that was not the reason that I opened the dictionary.
HAUNCH
That is the hindquarter of an animal. That is what I thought it was, but while checking on HAUNCH I looked up DISFAVORABLE. It is a wonder what words I bother to look up and those I do not. | |
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