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Thread #132499   Message #4176879
Posted By: Ebbie
14-Jul-23 - 07:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: Language Pet Peeves
Subject: RE: BS: Language Pet Peeves
I hesitate to list this one because I don't know whose ox I am about to gore: "supposably".

Right off the top of my head I can name three (THREE!) well-educated, bright people I know that use that word.

Does it come from 'back in the day', like, during the time of Ben Franklin, the 1700s? That's what it sounds like to me. I have never commented on it to any speaker but I don't understand wherever they got it.