Pierssene's Word Market

A miscellaneous compilation of articles and off-the-cuff ideas, mostly relating to the English Language and its words, and how well they are used on some occasions, and how badly on others. But other topics and whimsies are likely to keep cropping up too. This blog is closely related to the website mentioned below.

Wednesday, 10 December 2008

Force majeure

"I think", said a person commenting recently on government action on the financial crisis, "that it will make a very major difference".

'Major' doesn't mean 'big', it means 'bigger' or 'comparatively big'. So you can't 'make a very major difference' any more than you can 'commit a very bigger grammatical error'.

Force majeure
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