Saturday, November 20, 2010

Transpire - English editing

The standard general sense of transpire is ‘to come to be known’ as in it transpired that Mark had been baptized a Catholic. From this a looser sense had developed, meaning ‘to happen or occur’: I’m going to find out exactly what transpired. This looser sense, first recorded in US English towards the end of the 18th century and listed in US dictionaries from the 19th century, is often criticized for being jargon, an unnecessarily long word used where occur and happen would do just as well. The newer sense is very common, however, and generally accepted in most contexts, except by purists.
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