Doctor John wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>>> The longest English word found 
>>>> in the entire result set was the word "rare".
>>> Ooohhhh the irony! ;-)
>>   I have sometimes noticed that people use the word "irony" in situations
>> where it doesn't match the definition of the word. I think this is one
>> such case.
> Could that be because many of us are native English speakers and
> therefore understand the subtleties of the Eng. Lang. more intuitively?
> BTW Not meant offensively

What it more likely means is that native speakers, being exposed to more 
usages of the word, are consequently more exposed to incorrect uses.

A foreign speaker is more likely to know only the dictionary definition.

Regards,
John

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