ubiquity

Never mind. You got me back with mexicocity.

Here, let me take it off from around my neck, and you can yank it all you want. Go crazy.

I agree with you, c_b. I just wanted to yank the uselessness' chain. ;->

Skip, you've got to stop hanging around the uselessness.

No no...we love you, c_b. We just know how easy it is to yank your chain.

*feeling like everyone's picking on me*

What about iniquitousness? Nobody says *that*. They say iniquity, as is just and pleasing in the eyes of the Lord.

Why do people say hideousness when clearly hideosity is infinitely preferable?

Ha!

Let's not forget about mexicocity...

So uselessness could, in theory, be called uselessity. *stroking chin, thinking*

Sometimes it's just forgetfulness. In high school I got a paper back from a teacher with a big red circle around this word: angriness. It said "Anger?" in the margin. Now, that was just being dense (density?). But LOTs of people say "ubiquitousness," and say it frequently, as if ubiquity just didn't exist.

And we all know ubiquity exists. Oh yes it does. It's everywhere. Ahuh! Huhhuh! < -- weak, upper-class-twit laugh.

I have the same problem with humbleness. Can't people just say humility? It's a much nicer word.

No one ever said English was an organized language. ;-) It's the same reason I believe utilize should be stricken from the language. Forever.

Why do people say ubiquitousness instead of ubiquity?

Or is there a reason for the existence of "ubiquitousness"? Is that word denoting the quality of being ubiquitous, and this word (ubiquity), the actual being?