Bystander, I don’t know if you watch the forensic drama “The Body Farm” on BBC, but last night a policeman used the word “forensicate”, and the forensic scientist told him there was no such word.
Quite right too, it's a barbarism.
And another thing - I was in a meeting with HMCS civil servants the other day and someone spoke of the 'granularity' of something or other. Now what the hell is that supposed to mean?
That one is actually a real word, although I'm sure the civil servants were managing to use it inappropriately. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granularity
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