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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
No it wasn’t
Somebody took exception to the phrase as a grammatically incorrect pet peeve. Much as you can say a player was one of the better players on the ice, you could say they were one of the worse players
The point about posts not being essays was related to the idea that context is often not fully spelled out in a post. In this case, sure, ‘one of the worst’ is more commonly used but ‘one of the worse’ is not entirely wrong
Just strikes me as a weird thing to be bothered by, of all of the opportunities available to the grammar police
Maybe I should of not bothered commenting
Yes that was deliberate
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This post is one of the worse. 
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