Timeline for When should "such forth" be used?
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| Dec 15, 2012 at 18:25 | vote | accept | Joel Dean | ||
| Dec 14, 2012 at 15:51 | comment | added | coleopterist | @FumbleFingers Thank you. That's very interesting. | |
| Dec 14, 2012 at 15:49 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @coleopterist: and such like was far more "standard" a century or two ago, but as you can see from that NGram, and such forth never had any currency. | |
| Dec 14, 2012 at 15:21 | history | edited | coleopterist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Answer the question in the title.
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| Dec 14, 2012 at 15:16 | comment | added | coleopterist | @FumbleFingers Google Search returned around 800k hits for "and such forth" which seemed like a substantial number to me. "And such like" is truly shudder-worthy. | |
| Dec 14, 2012 at 14:45 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | ...another "unremarkable" variant is "and such like", with 15,000,000 results. I agree OP's phrase is effectively "non-standard" - so it's not unreasonable to call it "incorrect", even if it's no more or less "grammatical" than variants which are used. | |
| Dec 14, 2012 at 14:40 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I think it's just a (mistaken) conflation of and so forth and and [other] such [things]. But it's not at all common. Google Books reports only 227 instances, compared to 161,000,000 for "and so forth", and 187,000 for "and other such things" (and that's only one of the "normal" variants involving the word "such"). | |
| Dec 14, 2012 at 12:35 | comment | added | coleopterist | @KeyBrdBasher If the phrase itself is incorrect, so is the usage in the provided statement. I'm not sure where you see an ambiguity. | |
| Dec 14, 2012 at 11:06 | comment | added | Sayan | I think the OP is not concerned about the correctness of the phrase itself per se, but if its usage in her statement was incorrect. | |
| Dec 14, 2012 at 7:57 | history | answered | coleopterist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |