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Matriculate

Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 10:59 pm
by Slava
I've had this one in mind for a while, and now that it has come up in a recent Goodword of the day, lustrum, I guess it is time to toss it out there to see if anyone will salute it. :)

I believe this is a word that is often misused and misunderstood. Perhaps an operation by our Good Doctor would be of use here?

Re: Matriculate

Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 1:00 pm
by Perry Lassiter
To teenage minds, all -ate words sound mildly dirty (as do 90% of all words). We used to tell younger folks in late August that we were about to matriculate. Plus we proclaimed we loved to osculate.

Re: Matriculate

Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 9:56 pm
by Philip Hudson
The result of matriculation should be eventual graduation. I never heard the sentence, "I graduated high school," until recently. I think it's a Yankee incursion. Does a person graduate her/his high school? By what authority? I was taught to say, "I was graduated from high school." The school officials did the graduating. Does the act of graduating one's self sound like someone scratching a chalkboard to anyone else.

Re: Matriculate

Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 10:10 pm
by Slava
Does the act of graduating one's self sound like someone scratching a chalkboard to anyone else.
Not to me, but I expect I'm a generation or so after you. While I do know the usage, I have to admit I say, "I graduated in such-and-such year." I have never said, "was graduated."

Re: Matriculate

Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 11:17 pm
by Perry Lassiter
I have usually said, "I graduated from Baylor." i put in the work, and they handed me a diploma and let me go.

Re: Matriculate

Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 11:50 pm
by Philip Hudson
I graduated from Texas A & I. I graduated as far from it as possible and still be in Texas.