Is this even a word?
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You come from the country that gave us 'burglarize', 'winningest', 'impacted', 'lawmakers', and two-time (as an alternative to double).
I think it's a little late to start complaining about perfectly good words.
From the sauce of all wisdom, a/k/a the internet:
Bravery is the ability to confront something painful or difficult or dangerous without any fear. It's a quality, not a state of mind; it doesn't need a cause to awaken it. ... Courage, on the other hand, is the ability to confront something painful or difficult or dangerous despite any fear.
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You come from the country that gave us 'burglarize', 'winningest', 'impacted', 'lawmakers', and two-time (as an alternative to double).
I think it's a little late to start complaining about perfectly good words.
From the sauce of all wisdom, a/k/a the internet:
Bravery is the ability to confront something painful or difficult or dangerous without any fear. It's a quality, not a state of mind; it doesn't need a cause to awaken it. ... Courage, on the other hand, is the ability to confront something painful or difficult or dangerous despite any fear.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Is this even a word?:
From the sauce of all wisdom, a/k/a the internet:
Says the guy who puts forward-slashes between each letter of an initialism...
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OK, OK, I'll stand down. I'd just never heard it in that context.
But, I'm a geezer and
I was on my 2nd (cheap) Scotch of the eveningmy memory fails.Mea culpa.
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