Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The way we speak with one another has changed drastically over the last several decades, propelled largely by the digital age.

From Don Gordon of Clemmons: "They say that incorrect usage can drive out the correct one, and I believe that is the case with the word moot. "As I understand it, it literally means debatable, as in ...

Meaning: (n) 1. A public meeting, especially for judicial or legislative purposes. (adj) 2. Arguable, open to debate, not settled, as a moot question. 3. (law) Undebatable, irrelevant or already ...

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After Dr. Ink recently exposed the common misuse of the phrase “beg the question,” his able editor, Julie Moos, alerted him to a similar problem, a semantic shift in the meaning of the word “moot,” as ...