Tuesday, 23 October 2007

Tip-top

We could extrapolate from, say, the great vowel shift to add extra increments, or perhaps precision, to the superlative:

Top
Tip-top.
Tap-tip-top.
Type-tap-tip-top.

('I'm going to reach the top--in fact I'm going to reach the type of the tap of the very tip of the top...') If that doesn't sound right, perhaps we could augment with a separate marker of superlative: toppermost, tippermost-toppermost, tappermost-tippermost-toppermost ...

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