Word up: Prepone
Reading through a press release from an Indian company yesterday, I was introduced to a new word: prepone. Apparently this antonym of postpone is in common use in India. Can't say I am in favour of preponing its introduction to the rest of the English-speaking world. Learn more about the term here: http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000645.php
posted by Justin Toland at 12:36 am
6 Comments:
Very strange.
It's quite a hard word to get yer head around as well.
I work in India and both hear and see prepone used frequently.
I just started telling some college educated folks that it is not a word.
English is a versatile language. And the language grows by equipping itself with new words. And please understand that language is evolving all the time. So rather than saying "Set for earlier time", we can use "prepone". It's added in one of the premier dictionaries[David crystal, Words words words]. So please stop being an ignorant.
I am from India too. This word is very commonly used here and I was surprised to know that this was not in the dictionary earlier. However the new Oxford dictionary includes this word :)
If PONE has nothing to do with changing the time at which we perform an activity, then PREPONE shouldn't exist, just like there's no post-empt to pre-empt. But isn't it easier to use prepone, just like TJ said..language is evolving all the time.
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