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‘NORMALITY’ [OC] (feddit.nl)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/comicstrips

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The word normalcy is normalcy, yes.

But normality is quite normal.

https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?q=normality

[–] ziggurism 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I did not recognize that form and assumed it was not a word. I stand corrected.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You are very wise.

[–] ziggurism 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here’s wiktionary:

Although sometimes used, normalcy is less common than normality in American English. It is very rarely used in the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It is frequent in India and Zimbabwe however.

So it’s a regional thing.

Although the claim that in US English the “normality” form is more common does not match my experience as a speaker of US English.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I believe Normalcy was pioneered as a word in a presidential speech by Warren Harding in 1920. The titular "Return to Normalcy". Before that, it was only normality. Since then normalcy has overtaken normality to become the more common word to use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing that, I stand partly corrected, too.

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