Driven to MadnessCaptain Placid asks: What annoying things do significant others, workmates and other people in general do that drive you up the wall? Do you want to kill your other half over their obsessive fridge magnet collection? Driven to distraction over your manager's continued use of Comic Sans (The Font of Champions)? Tell us.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:11)
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According to the Oxford Dictionary it does.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/-gate?q=-gate
Just because you don't approve of the etymology of a word, doesn't make it invalid.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 14:21,
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It also includes chillaxtherefore its views are invalid:
oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/chillax?q=chillax
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Mrs Entity is in hiding., Mon 8 Oct 2012, 14:24,
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Is your point that we have enough words now, so should not accept any new ones into the language?(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 15:58,
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That would indeed bedoubleplusungood
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