When a page gets more than 50 posts, it gets a second (and then a third, etc.) page and at the top of each page is the note:
"This topic is comprised of pages: 1 2 ..."
Strictly speaking, this is incorrect, right? It should be "composed." Or "This topic comprises pages: ..." However, nobody cares anymore!!!
According to Dictionary.com: The traditional rule states that the whole comprises the parts and the parts compose the whole. In strict usage: The Union comprises 50 states. Fifty states compose (or constitute or make up) the Union. Even though careful writers often maintain this distinction, comprise is increasingly used in place of compose, especially in the passive: The Union is comprised of 50 states. Our surveys show that opposition to this usage is abating. In the 1960s, 53 percent of the Usage Panel found this usage unacceptable; in 1996, only 35 percent objected. See Usage Note at include.
How do board posters feel about this? Is this an example of our society Slouching toward Mediocrity? Is Outsports the reason Johnny can't read?? For god's sake, people!!!