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It's so weird how the words "composed" and "comprised" have now merged and migrated. The original meaning of "comprised" is no longer used, and instead is incorrectly used in place of "composed," even among journalists and educators. Why did this happen? "Comprised" was pretty obscure 10 years ago.

For the curious about correct usage: "12 eggs comprise a dozen." "A dozen eggs is composed of 12 eggs." "Comprised of" is inherently incorrect but that's how it's used, almost exclusively, and "composed," the correct word to use with "of," has disappeared from the conversation. It's just strange!

Ha ha owned. Owned! But where if not Jeopardy for strictness of word usage (I still say dog's dinner was a correct answer over dog's breakfast a few weeks ago!)

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We live in a sick, sick world.

Comprised of sick, sick people.

They're answers, not questions

You’ve composed a hyper-specific hill to die on when it comes to linguistic drift.

I have built a great many such hills and I'm going to die lying resplensently across them all!

Oh, this was creeping into the lexicon when I first started in the late 1990s!

Really? I missed the tipping point I guess

Missed it by a couple of centuries it seems