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Another candidate for El-Reg banned words-

Normalcy

...as used in this article. Clearly an americanis(Z)ation of a word intended to reduce the amount of thought required during language use.

There is an alternative to this word that happens also to be in the Oxford English dictionary, because it actually exists -

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/normal?view=uk

NORMALITY

God, writing is all you people do!!

Sorry to rant and all, but this really gets on my nerves being a UK website.

Couldn't the editors have Anglicised it?

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