Yeah!! Ban neologisms now!
Pesky things. 
I don’t like “normalcy”, I’ve never used it (until now) and I have no plans to use it again. But OED citations from the 1850s onwards ought to be enough to convince anyone that it is a word.
However, Worldservice is not a word, and I suspect it never will be.
The thread is full of bullshitness.
Chillification, people!
Okay, Soup_du_jour, You made me look it up in the dictionary, and it was there. But did you know that the word “gullible” is not in the dictionary?
Heyy, wait a second . . . Soup du jour doesn’t want to sound French?
Zut alors! J’accuse! You’ve been caught, you sneaky French bastard, trying to pollute our language with your silly French rules!
Maybe next time you try your crazified European schemes, you’ll choose a better nom de plume, non?
Daniel
I can’t believe that nobody has pointed out the fact that “normalcy” is a perfectly cromulent word!
You know what I hate? Otherwise intelligent people who insist on using the word “lonely” when they mean “melancholy.”
Six centuries of this bullshit is enough. It’s time for people to stand up and reclaim the language.
Don’t forget your goat leggings!
“Alligator” isn’t a word, either. Neither is “bump”, or “mountaineer”, or “aroused”, “bet”, “compromise”, “dawn”, “mimic”, “pedant”, “obscene”, “gust”, “fixture”, “deafening”, or numerous other words that people use all the time just because some random shmoe 500 years ago decided to use 'em.
Lanugages that don’t evolve, die.
And Gamera is friend to children…
Not in the dictionary? Well how do you spell it?
Right. That’s why I keep a bunch of lanugages on a Petri dish and coax 'em along with nutreints and soothing giutar music.
Fucking hell. The last time there was a thread involving sniffing dismissal of a word in those newfangled modern dictionaries established that the last trustworthy year for a dictionary was 1977.
But now I find out that the last trustworthy dictionary year was 1856! Or worst-case scenario, 1849! Thif if unacceptable!
Yeah, y’all are right on everything about languages evolving, and such…
But still, the word grates on my ears. 
Yeah, that really wasn’t a smart comment of mine, huh. :smack: Oops.
Okay. Y’all have convinced me that “normalcy” is a perfectly valid word that has been around forever, etc.
But that doesn’t mean that I like it! 
In other threads like this, I learned that we should all be using prescription dictionaries, rather than the ones we can buy over the counter.
Languages evolve, they are not static. Every word we have now is a mutation of some previous, older version of the word… or borrowed from a different language (and the prouneation is often butchered in the process). Quit your bitching.
Normalcy SOUNDS better. It rolls of the tounge in such a lovely fashion. Normality sounds fucked up to me, and harder to pronounce.
I thought it was normalitization
You’ve been watching Dead Ringers haven’t you?
Everton, that statement was erogenous.
I’d recognize normality as a word, simply because of abnormality, but normalcy just sounds more…well…normal. But then again, I don’t think I’d use either of them. I’d structure my phrase differently so I didn’t use either one just because I don’t like the word.
I am curious those…this could be a british/american difference? Granted, I haven’t been looking at people’s locations (and sorry, but the Kingdom of Butter doesn’t tell me much lol), but maybe one usage is more prevalent over here and one in britain?