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Thread #132499 Message #4092143
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
08-Feb-21 - 11:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: Language Pet Peeves
Subject: RE: BS: Language Pet Peeves
Jos: I think 'efficacy' is probably not a common word in peoples vocabularies. The accent on "eff" may be a hold-over from Scaffold and "Lily the Pink". "Most efficacious in ev'ry case"