Transfering to Georgetown!

nspeds
Thu, 18 May 2006 01:09:03 +0000

Well, the English counterpart of the OAD (2nd ed.) thinks it is.



Of course, there is no real decider on what is a word and what is not by any ultimate authority; however, in these cases, we can rely on the opinion of the majority:

Hits for “inexistent” on google: 596,000
Hits for “nonexistent” on google: 14,400,000

A landslide, and another win for prescriptivism.