Word: tailfins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grammarwise, it is permissible to tailfin any word with the suffix meaning "in the manner of." Estheticswise, it is deplorable-businesswise, dollarwise, saleswise and weathering are all barbarisms that deserve to be barred. And now with a word to the wise comes an equally formidable enemy: ness, denoting "state, quality or condition." It is not the friendly suffix of greatness, goodness, loveliness (properly forming abstract nouns from adjectives) or even Loch Ness, but a whole new invasion of language spotted by Professor Dorothy N. Foote of California's San Jose State College...
...Sabena Airlines plane in Belgium, killed 73 people last year, and has never been explained). But all of the four crashes occurred on training flights, when the Boeing 707 was deliberately put through a series of the most strenuous tests. Recently, the tendency to yaw has been minimized by tailfin improvements...