"Overrided?" Guess again!

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on June 11th, 2004

A reader writes:

Just a suggestion for your blog– if you’re going to make fun of someone’s grammar: ( We wrote in our L.C.S. Update: “Keep in mind, we’re dealing with a website that uses the phrases “developmental deal” and “executively produced.”) Then don’t use words like “overrided.” (We wrote in that same L.C.S. Update: It seems that the celebrity judges at the Las Vegas portion of this season’s L.C.S. were frosted that their votes… were overrided by the producers of the show.”)

Just trying to help,
Shaun

We reply:

Right you are, Shaun! According to Merriam-Webster, we should have used “overrode” instead of the entirely made-up word “overrided.” We will fall back on the immediacy of blogging as an excuse for our sloppiness. And the late hour (9:28 PM). And if we think of any other excuses, we’ll run them as well!

P.S.: That entire sentence is a tortured mess! Not one we’re particularly proud of. But we’ll put up our relative grammatical correcticity up against that of any other site out there!

P.S.S.: Technically speaking, we weren’t making fun of their grammar as much as their Norm Crosby-like mangling of show business terms that everybody in the biz should know.

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