The largest group probably consists of words used to mean something other than they "actually" mean: irony, angst, etc. It also strikes me that this list could be broken into separate categories of word misuse. I would also vote for moving the article itself to a less POV title, such as List of English words with disputed usage. Perhaps we should cite these "authorities" in claiming the correctness/incorrectness of these usages it seems fairly POV to be stating throughout this article that such-and-such "should not be used in this way." A good language authority, or several, would be better than the weasel term "most scholars" we have now. In looking up some of these words on, the American Heritage definitions in particular often mention a "Usage panel" that were some percentage in favor of or against certain usages of a word (look up "Hopefully", for example). They have pretty good counter-examples too. I am not a native speaker of English, but according to the FAQ entry the sentence-modifying usage of hopefully is not discouraged by "most scholars", although there is enough opposition to make the usage controversial. Also people (I think) use a dictionary differently from an encyclopaedia, and wouldn't pick up pointers on use/abuse in a dictionary. I think this page is worth having, partly because there or other similar ones, but also it allows discussion of the misuse and a bit more explanation that a dictionary tends to. Could get lengthy :-) - Wapcaplet 02:01, (UTC) Irony should be on here - it's widely abused! Begging the Question is covered on its own page. Or phrases, such as begging the question. Another note - would it be appropriate to extend this article to include words which are used to mean something other than they're supposed to mean? For instance, Jay Leno's repeatedly incorrect usage of the word "irony" to mean anything at all which is coincidental, or the popular use (and mispronounciation) of the word "angst", used to mean "full of anger" or similar nonsense. I think this is pretty similar, but I do agree that it should probably be on Wiktionary unless there's a good foundation of etymology and other juicy descriptive stuff to go along with it. Eloquence That may be true, though we do have lists of commonly misspelled words, and American and British English Differences and related stuff. This seems to be more appropriate for Wiktionary. 57 "MOS:ARABIC" listed at Redirects for discussion.49 Past and Passed - proposed amendment.41 The "concession controversy" stated in the webpage is incorrect.30 Suggestion: Sarcasm vs Sardonic comment.28 Suspect vs perpetrator: propose remove.27 Removal of "peruse", "dilemma", "adage", and "literally".24 Approximant versus approximative(ly) or approximation. 21 Can we use a better example for cant?.2 this whole page teeters dangerously on the brink of POV.
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