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Unique Items and Designs
By Roger Waring 

[ Examples found in MMDigest:

> There are so many unique web sites out there ...
> The 694 unique confirmations I have received ...
> It has a few relatively unique characteristics.
> These studs are very unique and extremely difficult to reproduce.
> The most unique thing about this one are the pouches.
> ... making their copy less unique and therefore less valuable?
> ... a very unique player piano bench ...

I know this is off-subject.
I know that I shall sound like a high-school teacher.
I know that I shall be accused of flaming.
But I don't care.

Could folk _please_ stop applying adverbs to the word unique.
There are no degrees of uniqueness.
The word is over-used, misused, and abused.
Check your dictionary.
That's all I ask.

Roger Waring
Solihull, West Midlands, UK

 [ adjective: unique
 [ adverb: uniquely
 [ noun: uniqueness
 [ -- Robbie

(Message sent Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:10:53 +0100 , from time zone +0100.)

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