to Category talk:English words affected by prescriptivism Also, why is <span class="searchmatch">tidal</span> <span class="searchmatch">wave</span> technically incorrect? --Eean 18:56, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC) <Jun-Dai 19:23...
searching through style manuals in libraries and online for notes on <span class="searchmatch">tidal</span> <span class="searchmatch">wave</span> vs. tsunami, I read that very early versions of "Fowler's Modern English...
free to discuss its conclusions. Does this need to be moved to Citations:<span class="searchmatch">tidal</span> <span class="searchmatch">wave</span> ? Mutante 17:24, 10 May 2008 (UTC) At least it should be incorporated...
in which a singleton <span class="searchmatch">wave</span> propagates without significant environmental interaction. Tsunami (also misleadingly named '<span class="searchmatch">tidal</span> <span class="searchmatch">wave</span>', which has nothing to...
(UTC) moved discussion of the correctness/incorrectness of <span class="searchmatch">tidal</span> <span class="searchmatch">wave</span> to the Talk:<span class="searchmatch">tidal</span> <span class="searchmatch">wave</span> page Note: later moved to Category talk:English words affected...
herring, I would tend to classify it more as figurative in the sense of a <span class="searchmatch">tidal</span> <span class="searchmatch">wave</span> of emotion. This is clear from looking at older uses where it was originally...
awesome can mean terrifying as in "No one who was in Indonesia during the <span class="searchmatch">tidal</span> <span class="searchmatch">wave</span> will forget its awesome power as it swept ashore."--Epolk 17:08, 15 June...
preferred sense is "correct". Other famous examples are decimate, podium, <span class="searchmatch">tidal</span> <span class="searchmatch">wave</span> and (doesn't it just figure) misnomer. It's an interesting phenomenon...
tsunami over <span class="searchmatch">tidal</span> <span class="searchmatch">wave</span> on the basis <span class="searchmatch">tidal</span> <span class="searchmatch">waves</span> are not caused by the same mechanisms as the solar / lunar tides (and therefore “harbor <span class="searchmatch">wave</span>” is somehow...
"correct" usage is overwhelmingly more frequent. This is in conrast to, say, <span class="searchmatch">tidal</span> <span class="searchmatch">wave</span>, which is about even with tsunami and decimate in the sense of "severely...