It doesn’t seem that anything is ever just wicky.
Except wicks.
here are my $.02
short shrift
raring to go
not a whit
out of kilter
kith and kin
What about fangled? It’s never old-fangled, is it? No, it’s always new. New-fangled. Back in my day, there was absolutely nothing wrong with old things being fangled…
And as for “irregardless,” I’ll let you live this time…provided you don’t use “entitled” in connection with the name of a book, movie or other work.
Use the word “behoove” in a sentence, without “it would…” preceding. I dareya.
But then, does anybody beside me ever say “it would behoove us…” anyway?
I always use the word skimp*. Am I being gramatically incorrect?
What is penile without implant. I don’t usually call it a penile erection or penile pleasures.
Quo always used with status.
I can’t seem to find categorically used anywhere, unless some dubious public figure is “categorically denying” some sort of allegation.
Well, I’m sure the Romans used quo a lot. But it also survives, in quid pro quo and Quo Vadis.
run amok.
I have never seen the word nother except in the phrase a whole nother.
Well, that’s not a word, it’s just a contraction of ‘another’.
Have you ever heard of a “knoll” that wasn’t “grassy”?
This came up in Scrabble on the flight back from Thanksgiving with the family: pent. ‘Pent’, while a legitimate word, is never used without ‘up’