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Thread #106570   Message #2202719
Posted By: Mr Red
26-Nov-07 - 05:34 PM
Thread Name: BS: Is Your Grammar Up To Date?
Subject: RE: BS: Is Your Grammar Up To Date?
Hmmmmmmm

Anyone here use the word instatiate?

I had this on a techie forum as if the whole world uses it. Not so. The Cambridge dictionary doesn't report it, Mirriam Webster cites a first use by a philospher in 1949.

Microsoft don't use it in techie help files.

AND you try a week in NZ - "have a relax" and the Lalland Scots "uptake a leaflet" are quite normal forms of grammar.