Normalcy

9 replies

trixymalixy · 20/01/2011 22:08

I have been reading a book that uses this word a lot. I have just googled it and it is apparently a real word.

It is like listening to someone scratching their fingernails down a blackboard to me.

It should be normality, should it not?

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Goingspare · 20/01/2011 22:12

Standard American usage.

tethersend · 20/01/2011 22:14

The word ironical does the same to me.

nickelbabysnatcher · 21/01/2011 16:05

it's an american word.

like Specialty

oliviacrumble · 22/01/2011 00:02

Bill Clinton loved 'normalcy'...

MollysChambers · 22/01/2011 00:05

Burglarised. American version of burgled.

I cannot bare it.

AnyFuleKno · 22/01/2011 00:17

It's actually an English word, It's just fallen out of usage here. It's used by Defoe in Moll Flanders.

ChaosTrulyReigns · 22/01/2011 00:19

Diarise.

seasalt · 22/01/2011 00:35

I hate when Americans say "in nature" instead of outdoors!

nickelbabysnatcher · 22/01/2011 10:49

Molly - Burglar is the root noun - we chose burgled and they chose burglarized. both correct.

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