# Words you dont use cos you dont like them

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 3, 2004, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100 "2004-04-03T21:00:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kaboodle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kaboodle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaboodle)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-use-cos-you-dont-like-them/238100/61 "2004-04-07T02:02:27Z")

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**Certificated** bugs the heck out of me. What is wrong with certified?

I started hearing and reading this word about 4 or 5 years ago and I thought that they were making a mistake until I looked it up.

One of the sources on [dictionary.com](http://dictionary.com) displayed this listing:

> [@](#):
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> certificated
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> adj : officially documented; “a certified public accountant”

How idiotic can you get? Using ‘certified’ in an example for ‘certificated’. :rolleyes: Make ‘certificated’ a non-word and ban it’s usage!

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