Re: Angry Birds iPhone

On 2009-12-15, The Rev <the_rev_yes_really@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 15/12/2009 08:55, Toby Newman wrote:
On 2009-12-15, The Rev<the_rev_yes_really@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 14/12/2009 22:13, Gareth wrote:

Thank you. So glad I'm not the only person who hates the proliferation
of *that* non-word.

Nah, it's a perfectly valid word, though mainly used in the US. It's just
that we tend to use addictive instead. The OED has an entry for it and
everything.

I don't have an OED here but, surely, it's listed as a verb? People
tend to use it as an adjective which is what grates on me.

Time for research!

Okay.

According to Wiktionary, the adjective form is in the OED and the earliest
example there is 1939, though Wiktionary has an example from a Time magazine
article from 1936.

Of the five examples, three are from American English sources. It also
adds "Possibly considered non-standard outside United States."

The verb form appears to much older, yes.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/addicting


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