The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #25235   Message #294630
Posted By: Metchosin
10-Sep-00 - 02:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: Mangling the English Language
Subject: RE: BS: Mangling the English Language
Fingernails down the blackboard for me....When my children were small, we would constantly get notices from the school regarding the benefit of eating "healthy lunches" with all those "healthy fruits and vegetables".

As I was not deliberately in the habit of knowingly sending my children to school with diseased fruits and vegetables in their bags, I found this particularly irksome. Now the term "healthy food" is commonplace and makes me wonder if the word "healthful" has been permanantly dropped from the English language.