[WikiEN-l] "Well known"
Charles Matthews
charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Sun Sep 6 06:57:06 UTC 2009
For a change, something on English usage. A trawl through some usage
books tells me nothing much about "most well known", which I'm convinced
is a solecism, and should be "best-known". The hyphenation I think is
standard anyway. Sadly Google believes there are 11,000 instances for
"most well known" on enWP, and I'd prefer none to be in article space.
Charles
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