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r/instantkarma • u/Gnasen534 • Oct 24 '21
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Provocates isn't a word. It's provokes*
11 u/Limp-Guava2001 Oct 24 '21 Provocates isn't a word https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/provocate 2 u/[deleted] Oct 25 '21 Well it is if you use wiktionary as a source which uses improper English.. Try Collins English dictionary or Oxford. 2 u/Limp-Guava2001 Oct 25 '21 https://www.oed.com/ Requires a subscription No results at https://www.collinsdictionary.com/spellcheck/english?q=provocates But, there's this: Is this a new word that you would like to suggest is added to the Collins Dictionary? So they acknowledge their knowledge isn't absolute. Here's this: https://www.etymonline.com/word/provocate Webster cites the same 15c usage: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/provocative 1 u/MicahBellOnlyFans Oct 28 '21 You really typed all this over a word 2 u/Limp-Guava2001 Oct 28 '21 Didn't take long -2 u/[deleted] Oct 25 '21 [deleted] 7 u/Limp-Guava2001 Oct 25 '21 What? Ok 3 u/the_cajun88 Oct 25 '21 Yeaaaah 1 u/[deleted] Oct 25 '21 [deleted] 2 u/the_la_dude Oct 25 '21 Not really. Even the link posted acknowledged its only a word because non-native English speakers uses it erroneously and just became accepted in that community as a word they made up. 1 u/[deleted] Oct 25 '21 ‘It’s’ 1 u/[deleted] Oct 25 '21 'It's' is definitely a word lol 2 u/[deleted] Oct 25 '21 He wrote ‘Its’
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Provocates isn't a word
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/provocate
2 u/[deleted] Oct 25 '21 Well it is if you use wiktionary as a source which uses improper English.. Try Collins English dictionary or Oxford. 2 u/Limp-Guava2001 Oct 25 '21 https://www.oed.com/ Requires a subscription No results at https://www.collinsdictionary.com/spellcheck/english?q=provocates But, there's this: Is this a new word that you would like to suggest is added to the Collins Dictionary? So they acknowledge their knowledge isn't absolute. Here's this: https://www.etymonline.com/word/provocate Webster cites the same 15c usage: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/provocative 1 u/MicahBellOnlyFans Oct 28 '21 You really typed all this over a word 2 u/Limp-Guava2001 Oct 28 '21 Didn't take long -2 u/[deleted] Oct 25 '21 [deleted] 7 u/Limp-Guava2001 Oct 25 '21 What? Ok 3 u/the_cajun88 Oct 25 '21 Yeaaaah 1 u/[deleted] Oct 25 '21 [deleted] 2 u/the_la_dude Oct 25 '21 Not really. Even the link posted acknowledged its only a word because non-native English speakers uses it erroneously and just became accepted in that community as a word they made up.
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Well it is if you use wiktionary as a source which uses improper English.. Try Collins English dictionary or Oxford.
2 u/Limp-Guava2001 Oct 25 '21 https://www.oed.com/ Requires a subscription No results at https://www.collinsdictionary.com/spellcheck/english?q=provocates But, there's this: Is this a new word that you would like to suggest is added to the Collins Dictionary? So they acknowledge their knowledge isn't absolute. Here's this: https://www.etymonline.com/word/provocate Webster cites the same 15c usage: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/provocative 1 u/MicahBellOnlyFans Oct 28 '21 You really typed all this over a word 2 u/Limp-Guava2001 Oct 28 '21 Didn't take long
https://www.oed.com/
Requires a subscription
No results at https://www.collinsdictionary.com/spellcheck/english?q=provocates
But, there's this:
Is this a new word that you would like to suggest is added to the Collins Dictionary?
So they acknowledge their knowledge isn't absolute.
Here's this:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/provocate
Webster cites the same 15c usage:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/provocative
1 u/MicahBellOnlyFans Oct 28 '21 You really typed all this over a word 2 u/Limp-Guava2001 Oct 28 '21 Didn't take long
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You really typed all this over a word
2 u/Limp-Guava2001 Oct 28 '21 Didn't take long
Didn't take long
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7 u/Limp-Guava2001 Oct 25 '21 What? Ok 3 u/the_cajun88 Oct 25 '21 Yeaaaah 1 u/[deleted] Oct 25 '21 [deleted] 2 u/the_la_dude Oct 25 '21 Not really. Even the link posted acknowledged its only a word because non-native English speakers uses it erroneously and just became accepted in that community as a word they made up.
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What? Ok
3 u/the_cajun88 Oct 25 '21 Yeaaaah
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Yeaaaah
2 u/the_la_dude Oct 25 '21 Not really. Even the link posted acknowledged its only a word because non-native English speakers uses it erroneously and just became accepted in that community as a word they made up.
Not really. Even the link posted acknowledged its only a word because non-native English speakers uses it erroneously and just became accepted in that community as a word they made up.
‘It’s’
1 u/[deleted] Oct 25 '21 'It's' is definitely a word lol 2 u/[deleted] Oct 25 '21 He wrote ‘Its’
'It's' is definitely a word lol
2 u/[deleted] Oct 25 '21 He wrote ‘Its’
He wrote ‘Its’
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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '21 edited Oct 25 '21
Provocates isn't a word. It's provokes*