Comment by buellerbueller
16 hours ago
Sycophantic is obviously a word, because we understand what it means.
Furthermore, it obviously hasn't been a word since at least 1800:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_e...
16 hours ago
Sycophantic is obviously a word, because we understand what it means.
Furthermore, it obviously hasn't been a word since at least 1800:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_e...
On the other hand https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=syncophantic&y...
GOP wrote syncophantic, with an n. Which is not a word. Well, not a known word at least.
They were pointing out a typo ("syncophantic").
It wasn't so much pointing it out as a typo as making myself clear.
When suggesting a word is not what the writer meant, when it was also not the word that the writer wrote, it seemed wise to clarify exactly what I was talking about.