Dictator Is No Dictater

All there be is when custom, no rule, The tail wags, an un-fixed tinkered tool, Free for all a feigned rule, And free-spell the sole school, When spirit of time wills feel free, cool! ____________________________________________________________ Suffixes (the tail) not long back still mattered, but no longer. Noun formation from a verb with a suffix at the end (whether it should be an –er or –or) these days hardly matters, and either seems good enough. So, impostor becomes imposter; protester becomes protestor; most advisers are now advisors; supervisers, supervisors; yet sailors, sailers; and jailers, jailors. Even the difference between dictator and dictater has vanished. Little can be done if custom has no system; no rule reigns. ______________________________________________________________________ - Happenings (Ways of words) | 02.05.14 |