Thread: Cast or Casted?
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Old 09-25-2010, 06:16 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by dlish View Post
it really confused me when the MOM came back all miscorrected (is that a word BG?) with the word 'casted' instead.
Miscorrection is a word, according to the OED. However, miscorrected doesn't appear. This means that the OED recognizes it as a noun, but not a verb. So you would be safer to recast the phrase as:
It really confused me when the MOM came back with the miscorrection of "casted" replacing "cast."
Miscorrection is also a mass noun, so no pluralization is required.
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