penultimate

next to last


This word is long overdue, only because it has been misused so much by so many. Maybe in 20 years, if everyone insists on using penultimate to mean “the super ultimate,” that definition will enter into the dictionaries, but for now, please, let’s use it only to mean next to last. Please?

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