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Imposter.
Need...really need...a strong antonym for imposter...by Weds. (early a.m. EST)...
Thanks...many.
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Mercy me, WW, what is it with you and these impossible antonyms of negatives lately? Here're a handful: actuality, authentic, genuine article, bona fide, honest-to-goodness, the real McCoy. By the way--may I ask for a poll re: the "proper" spelling of her word?
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My spelling must be incorrect because I could find only a handful of dictionaries on Onelook with imposter, so-spelled.
What's the more usual spelling? I can't for the life of me remember it?
Edit: 97,500 Google hits for imposter, but I still can't remember the other spelling...
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Well, Jackie, impostor gets more definitions on Onelook, so that must be the preferred spelling. And on Google it gets 114,000 hits over imposter's 97,500 hits. Close, but impostor wins.
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I would have said "imposter" too but after looking it up I saw that the "-or" spelling is listed as the main entry and the "-er" spelling as a variant. All that time I was using "imposter" and it was an imposter.
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now they both look wrong…
formerly known as etaoin...
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Yes, they do!
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If you unzip them you'll see that they're actually pepsi twist...
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adept? master? adroit ( is the last one an adjective?)
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