07-03-2005, 14:21
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Grammar Curmudgeon
AKA: gwross
 FRC #0330 (Beach 'Bots) Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Rookie Year: 1998
Location: Hermosa Beach, CA
Posts: 2,245
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Re: Words that aren't words that should be
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Originally Posted by Bemis
Heres a good one that I forgot--- Goodly.
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Already a golden oldie:
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- Pleasant; agreeable; desirable. "We have many goodly days to see." Shak.
- Of pleasing appearance or character; comely; graceful; as, a goodly person; goodly raiment, houses. "The goodliest man of men since born." Milton.
- Large; considerable; portly; as, a goodly number. "Goodly and great he sails behind his link." Dryden.
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