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minus-squareRampantParanoia2365@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-29 months agoWho wrote this?? Nobody says “penultimate”! Edit: yeah, sorry, this was just a line from a TV show. It was stupid.
minus-squaremy_hat_stinks@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoPenultimate isn’t that uncommon? Just because you don’t personally hear it in your day-to-day life doesn’t mean other people don’t use it. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=penultimate%2Csecond+last%2Csecond+to+last%2Cnext+to+last&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3
minus-squarebss03@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoI wrote this. I so rarely get to use the word “penultimate”; I wanted to. It was especially cool to be able to pair it to “ultimate” meaning “last” instead of (the more colloquial) “greatest”.
Who wrote this?? Nobody says “penultimate”!
Edit: yeah, sorry, this was just a line from a TV show. It was stupid.
Penultimate isn’t that uncommon? Just because you don’t personally hear it in your day-to-day life doesn’t mean other people don’t use it.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=penultimate%2Csecond+last%2Csecond+to+last%2Cnext+to+last&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3
I wrote this. I so rarely get to use the word “penultimate”; I wanted to. It was especially cool to be able to pair it to “ultimate” meaning “last” instead of (the more colloquial) “greatest”.