From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!brunix!ljm Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: Surprising words Article-I.D.: brunix.1508 Posted: Sat Feb 12 10:17:47 1983 Received: Sun Feb 13 05:40:27 1983 References: uw-beave.338,iheds.205 Nothing annoys me more than hearing someone say "The system is comprised of", rather than "The system comprises..." Yes, if enough people do it, then it will probably become "current usage" and we'll all have to put up with it forever, but I'd much rather see stiff penalties for current mis-users now to prevent such a perversion... Fed up with lazy language users, Lou Mazzucchelli decvax!brunix!ljm