User talk:McClain142

Entitled
Entitle can simply mean "to name". Pretty much any dictionary will confirm this. Brc2000 (talk) 13:21, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

I disagree
While it is in the dictionary, most professional editors would consider it wrong, or at the very least pretentious. While you can "entitle" something, it is not "entitled." It is simply "titled." Or better yet, just say the title and drop the unnecessary word.

AP Stylebook:

entitled: Use it to mean a right to do or have something. Do not use it to mean titled.

Right: She was entitled to the promotion. Right: The book was titled "Gone With the Wind."

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/titled-or-entitled.aspx

http://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/agcomm/ontarget/0506/GrammarTraptitledvs.entitled.htm

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/titled-versus-entitled/

http://www.businesswritingblog.com/business_writing/2007/10/entitled-or-tit.html

McClain142 (talk) 18:11, 5 June 2011 (UTC)


 * That's stylistic preference, but it's still grammatically correct. Words can have more than one meaning. The fist of your links confirm this. Maybe it's an American thing. Brc2000 (talk) 10:50, 6 June 2011 (UTC)