Not sure whether Red Pen, Inc. has touched on this yet, but it’s one of my recent pet peeves.
This word appears to be the bastard lovechild of ‘guarantee’ and ‘warranty’. While ‘warrantee’ is technically a word – meaning a person to whom a warrant has been issued – it has nothing to do with purchases. If you have a 100,000 mile warrantee, he or she is probably extremely tall, horribly disfigured by sunburn and having a very hard time breathing in the vacuum of inner space.
Quote from Obama, headline from Drudge Report. I hope they both know better.
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