Your browser does not seem to support JavaScript. As a result, your viewing experience will be diminished, and you have been placed in read-only mode.
Please download a browser that supports JavaScript, or enable it if it's disabled (i.e. NoScript).
I agree that goodness is good
Nobody likes bad, and neither do I
Hah that’s great
Brilliant!
“Elide”* has eluded me in the written or spoken word. Is it common? Here is one way to know.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=elide%2Comit&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Celide%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Comit%3B%2Cc0
*founded below in the brand tweet.
Actually, that link uses "elide, omit."
If you just look at "elide," the results are quite different.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=elide&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Celide%3B%2Cc0
I know only a fraction of the words of most native speakers, yet "elide" sounds quite familiar to me. For some reason it shows up in scientific papers quite frequently.
