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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Who wrote this?? Nobody says "penultimate"!

[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 1 points 13 hours ago

Penultimate isn't that uncommon? Just because you don't personally hear it in your day-to-day life doesn't mean other people don't use it.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=penultimate%2Csecond+last%2Csecond+to+last%2Cnext+to+last&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago

I wrote this. I so rarely get to use the word "penultimate"; I wanted to. It was especially cool to be able to pair it to "ultimate" meaning "last" instead of (the more colloquial) "greatest".