The little moose did nothing to curb Angelique's determination to have a big moose of her own

She first tried leaving the museum with moose but without jacket. When I stopped that one, she then zipped the moose up into her jacket.

It bulged.

I walked up to her, and she was whispering to the moose "don't worry, this will keep you warm", and she stopped when she saw me, and all the time, there was this bulge in her jacket that yes, I could actually see.

So she asked the staff (again) if she could keep it, and this time Chris said "Well, I'll see if it really belongs anywhere, but you have to leave it here for now". So we may end up with three stuffed moose in this house.

The other moose showed up yesterday (Friday) as well, and Ana seemed pretty happy with it. I didn't hang around, their dad was already there.

Right around the time Katie McCarron was killed, so was Christopher DeGroot

It's hard to tell from the comments to this article, but his parents almost certainly set the house on fire. That was the conclusion the police made in the first articles on the subject, and nothing has actually changed as far as I'm aware. They just managed to not be tried for arson, only for locking their kid in his room while they left the house for several hours.

That might help to explain why they were each convicted to only six months in prison.

I don't care how much I respect you as an author

If you're going to claim that this, that, or the other thing isn't a word, you should at least check a dictionary first. Preferably the OED, but since I lack one of those, I just use online Merriam-Webster when being a snot.

Why? Because chances are, it *is* a word. Really, it's hard to see how it can't be. I mean, if I can use it, and other people have a fighting chance of understanding what I mean when I do, I'd like to know what the heck it is if it's not a word. But I mean to say it's a word that's been properly pinned down and recorded, and may have existed for a very, very long time indeed.

Once you've determined that it is, in fact, considered a word by the experts in the field, you can then make a slightly more coherent complaint - it's a word, but one you feel is unwieldy, or ugly, or that marks people as ignorant, or that only serves to cause confusion, or whatever the heck you want to say about it, I don't know.

You've then made your complaint, and you've done it without looking silly. Everybody wins.

Edit: Incidentally, I totally agree that nobody should ever wait for anything with baited breath. However, the word bated is otherwise so obscure that I suggest anybody who doesn't know what the word means (don't go looking it up! I mean it!) immediately go out and just find a new expression to cover the meaning of "waiting with eager anticipation". We'll all be happier for it.