Red Sludge disaster

I stick this discussion

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I think it's about time to unstick this.

Discussion unsticked.

unsticked or unstuck, a tough question for grammarians!

I think you made the right call, Christine, using unsticked - it sounds a bit funny, but not half as wacky, as unstuck.

Enough of the sludge for now.

logger wrote:

unsticked or unstuck, a tough question for grammarians!

I think you made the right call, Christine, using unsticked - it sounds a bit funny, but not half as wacky, as unstuck.

Enough of the sludge for now.

In German, it's probably "ungestickt".

Maybe it's "de-sticked", like de-plane favoured in the USA.

But for the British, perhaps even dis-sticked (like disembarked), although it sounds clumsy.

my preference is de-sticked as distict from dis-sticked.

unsticked is still the most literal and hence correct, as I'm sure Christine would agree.

well, it's called a sticky, maybe it should be unsticky-ed  (unstickied)

octobop wrote:

well, it's called a sticky, maybe it should be unsticky-ed  (unstickied)

I reckon this is maybe a British vs American English debate.

I think "un-stickied" sounds more British and "de-stickied" sounds more American.

I also wonder why I have time to think about this when I should be doing something more useful.

actually, I'd go with destickied - it implies more of an act done TO it by an administrator, rather than unstickied, which seems to me to be something that just happens (pulling something off the wall vs. it falling off itself by laws of nature).

I'll never pass up an opportunity to dissect grammar, be it real or imagined! 

thanks guys, I learnt a lot today