Jody HughesTwice today (so far) I’ve seen the word ‘renown’ used as an adjective, where I expect ‘renowned’. (Something like ‘They are a renown expert’.) One example here, one in a Royal Mint publication.
Is this like when your OS does a silent update and changes a thing that you like and rely on, but for language? Did English do an update? Have we deprecated the adjectival form, so no one will ever be renowned again?
Or are people thinking it works like known, and is already adjective-ready?
Renown ≠ re-known. (Which isn’t a word.)
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