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The misuse of it has been going on for a long time. Fowler complains of it as a hackneyed phrase, though I can't remember whether it's in The King's English (1904) or Modern English Usage (c. 1926).
As far as I'm concerned it's a misquotation pure and simple: those two words do occur together in Shakespeare but not at all in the sense now intended. Ariel's sea change was a slow transformation by the corrosion of time - not an abrupt reversal as if in... mid-stream?
What do people think they're saying? Even if they think it just means "change", why say "sea change" instead of "change"? "There has been a (sea) change in this government's policies"... what does it add?
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Sea change? BlanchePatch 06/19/01 12:13 PM Re: Sea change? maverick 06/19/01 12:21 PM Re: Sea change? NicholasW 06/19/01 12:28 PM Re: Sea change? maverick 06/19/01 12:41 PM Re: Sea change? wwh 06/19/01 01:23 PM No love lost Faldage 06/19/01 01:49 PM Re: No love lost Hyla 06/19/01 03:19 PM Re: Sea change? Rapunzel 06/19/01 09:20 PM Re: Sea change? wwh 06/19/01 10:17 PM Re: Sea change? tsuwm 06/20/01 01:42 AM Re: Sea change? maverick 06/20/01 01:49 AM Max Quordlepleen 06/20/01 02:03 AM Re: Sea change? tsuwm 06/20/01 02:23 AM Re: Sea change? Rusty 06/20/01 07:50 AM Re: Sea change? wideyed 06/22/01 04:08 PM Re: Sea change? BlanchePatch 06/20/01 12:07 PM Re: Sea change? Fiberbabe 06/20/01 11:01 AM Re: Sea change? Bean 06/19/01 01:30 PM Re: Sea change wow 06/19/01 07:19 PM Re: Sea change Bean 06/20/01 10:46 AM Re: Sea change wow 06/20/01 07:16 PM Re: Sea change? belligerentyouth 06/19/01 12:26 PM Re: Sea change? consuelo 06/20/01 01:34 AM
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