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12-19-2005, 03:31 PM
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Re: \"Happy Holidays\" v. \"Merry Christmas\"
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Happy Holidays is in vogue this year. What I find intriguing, though, is the “word” moreso. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] What "word"? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] 
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12-19-2005, 04:02 PM
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Re: \"Happy Holidays\" v. \"Merry Christmas\"
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"Moreso". That is why I put quotes on "word". When did moreso become a word? It is quite in vogue on 2+2. [/ QUOTE ] Ahh! I see. I could lie and say I forgot the space... but I think I've seen it that way somuch, that it started looking right to me. Asitwere, thanks for pointing out my mistake, nottomention letting everyone else know aswell.
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12-19-2005, 09:38 PM
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Re: \"Happy Holidays\" v. \"Merry Christmas\"
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[ QUOTE ] "Moreso". That is why I put quotes on "word". When did moreso become a word? It is quite in vogue on 2+2. [/ QUOTE ] Ahh! I see. I could lie and say I forgot the space... but I think I've seen it that way somuch, that it started looking right to me. Asitwere, thanks for pointing out my mistake, nottomention letting everyone else know aswell. [/ QUOTE ] LOL. p.s. I didn't mean to direct it at you personally. The part about it looking right is "moreof" what I had in mind.
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12-20-2005, 03:44 PM
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Re: \"Happy Holidays\" v. \"Merry Christmas\"
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I've heard that the OED has recently started including "moreso". Unfortunately, I don't have a copy to verify that. [/ QUOTE ] It's way down under "more" f. With ellipsis of the word or sentence modified. Now freq. with anaphoric so (see SO adv. 4a) in more so (also, chiefly U.S., moreso). (all) the more: the rather, the more so (as, because, etc.).
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