Thinking like that I won't make any friends

[venta]

I was just re-reading a comment I'd made on someone else's LJ (proof read before hitting the post button, y'say? crazy) and noticed something distressing.

I cold-bloodedly used the word "improval". As in "you should see signs of improval in a short time".

Worse, I only thought it looked kind of odd, and I spent some time wondering how I should have spelled it before I finally realised that it's not a word.

Three smacks on the nose with the complete OED for me when I get home this evening, to be repeated daily until there is some improvement in the situation.

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

until there is some improvement

Shouldn't take long, your use of the word seems immeasurably improvised already!

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

I'd have said it was measurably improvated.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I think it sounded like I was improvising in the first place!