Wednesday, July 10, 2002

Free Word Consultancy

Q called me. The conversation went like this:

Q: Is mislocated a word?
me: I don't think so. Why? [simultaneously finding word not found on dictionary.com]
Q: Word keeps telling me to say misallocated, but I mean things getting to the wrong place
me: Why don't you say "lose"?
Q: It's a legal-type letter. Shouldn't I use long words?
me: Dunno. Don't think it's like, in the contract that you have to
Q: Mmm
me: What are you trying to say?
Q: Things keep getting sent to the wrong place
me: Why don't you say "misdirected"?
Q: Yeah, that's good
me: And it's a real word

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