Today's Trivia
You may be surprised to learn that approximately 90% of dictionary publishers have omitted the word gullible since 1973. Let's do an unscientific study and see how many of my readers' dictionaries include the word.
Please respond in the comments section.
You should have waited until April 1st
to try that one!
Posted by: PRC | 02/06/2004 - 09:25 AM
I've used that one for years. In grad school, one of my housemates went beet red when I said "gullible isn't in the dictionary" but she then explained, she had fallen for that repeatedly in undergrad (to the same guy, repeatedly) and then when she caught on, she still fell for "You're right, it's in there. But it's misspelled."
Posted by: Dr_Mike | 02/06/2004 - 05:23 PM
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You sick sick sick man. I assume this is your way of saying "just wanted you to know I was thinking about you".
Not that I immediately wondered "But WHY would they do something like that" quickly followed by a surge of outrage that there is a giraffe in the yard (again :)