Timeline for Which is correct: "troubleshooted" or "troubleshot"?
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| Sep 25, 2020 at 16:07 | history | edited | Sven Yargs | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Removed a stray "a" from the opening sentence of the answer.
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| Sep 25, 2020 at 16:03 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | @EdwinAshworth: I think Garner is a very well-informed and level-headed observer of U.S. English usage, but I don't know much about the mechanics of his index, and I suspect that there is a great deal of subjectivity involved in it. Garner introduced the index in the third edition of Modern American Usage, but the only edition of his book that I have in hand is the second edition. I haven't read any critical assessment of the index; I would be surprised, however, if it had much standing in scholarly circles. | |
| Sep 25, 2020 at 14:08 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Have you seen any comprehensive analyses / crits of Garner's language change index acceptability ranking, Sven? It looks like it could be an authoritative reference with which to address some of the grey-area questions that appear. | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 9, 2020 at 23:05 | history | edited | Sven Yargs | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added an alternative way of viewing the Ngram chart, and corrected a typo: 'tobe' --> 'to be'.
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| Jan 9, 2020 at 15:24 | comment | added | hippietrail | Troubleshooter/troubleshooting fits a pattern of compound words that mainly occur in these two forms. Compare: panelbeater/panelbeating, gasfitter,gasfitting,, boilermaker/boilermaking. (Some may be more commonly written with a space or hyphen but still lack common past forms.) | |
| Dec 7, 2019 at 10:52 | history | answered | Sven Yargs | CC BY-SA 4.0 |