A while back on one of my posts on the Tekzilla forum, I was amazed that a certain country started using the word “analyzation”. This is clearly not a word. If you analyse something, you make an analysis not an analyzation but to my disbelief, it managed to get into a dictionary.
Even in my own country, so many people can’t pronounce the word “slippery” that the word “slippy” has found its way into dictionaries. Even “slippier” is there. If that word loses any more random syllables because of stupid people, it’s going to be “sly”.
It turns out that if enough people are wrong, they just change what is right.
While I’m talking about this, it should be “10 items or fewer” not “10 items or less”. If you can count it, it’s “fewer”. This assumes that you can count from 0 to 10, though for the people that make these mistakes, that’s quite a wild assumption.
If you are going to speak English, speak English. If you are not going to speak English, call it something else. I suggest saying that you speak “stoopid”.
Yeah, a few decades ago they decided that a more modern and useful model for dictionaries is to be descriptive (list what people DO say) rather than prescriptive (list what people SHOULD say). There are still a few prescriptive dictionaries, but all the big ones are descriptive. Language is always changing anyway.