From dictionary.com:
1.
to kill by violence.
2.
to destroy; extinguish.
3.
sley.
4.
Informal. to impress strongly; overwhelm,especially by humor:
Your jokes slay me.
5.
Obsolete. to strike.
6.
to kill or murder.
And this thing has been traditionally published! A professional editor allowed this HUGE typo in the title to pass!
Ouch. Now I'm going to have to sue the publisher for pain and suffering!
ReplyDeleteAnother tragic event for words of course arrives from the urban dictionary- which defines slayed, as a word used when you dominate or do really well on something. also used when you defeat an opponent.
ReplyDelete-Dude, I slayed that history test!
-How'd you do in that Madden game against Gavin?
--I totally slayed him, it wasn't even close.
Maybe it's just me but "slayed and doing something really well together? I also dislike the use of dude, always. But that's me.
I use the urban dictionary all the time, but it's a dictionary of street slang for the mostly under 30 crowd. It's not a dictionary of correct word usage.
DeleteThis is a cozy mystery about a murder; its audience is not 18-year-old college gamer dudes.
It's not slang here, nor is it written in dialect; it's just plain ignorance and indolence.
Okay I've been wanting to share this with someone! My mother for all my childhood pressed this daily. Now, as an adult, I'm correcting my children, not so much now, they learned, but my grandchildren. You're not done! You were't baked in the oven you have finished your homework. The Germans get it, if you ever follow a German blogger the little box doesn't say done, in German of course it says, Finished! There, now I feel better! :)
ReplyDeleteOh yes, we hear that one a lot.
DeleteOther misused words include "healthy," when what is meant is "healthful," and "hopefully, " when what is meant is "I hope that...."
Getting into trouble always I am for what I wrote.
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