Of links and linkages December 15, 2010
Posted by Olivia McDowell in Words.Tags: link, linkage, OED, Words
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I have looked in the dictionary (both Macquarie* AND Oxford**) and I still don’t know why anyone would use the word linkage as a noun when plain old link will almost always suffice. Unless they are using it as a technical term in the field of genetics. Which they seldom ever are.
*Preferred in Australia.
**Preferred everywhere else in the known universe.
Your blog is highly amusing. Thanks. I was going to write more but am aware I may be grammatically incorrect at any given moment. Simplicity is good anway.
Comment freely! Ramble unhindered! I’m the first to admit that I too make terrible grammatical errors just as much as the next person.