Giant Guatemalan 'Sinkhole' Is Worse Than We Thought

reillymj writes "Despite hundreds of media reports to the contrary, Sam Bonis, a geologist whose life work has been studying Guatemalan geology, has plainly said that the dramatic 'sinkhole' in Guatemala City that opened over the weekend isn't a sinkhole at all. Instead, he called it a 'piping feature' and warned that because the country's capital city sits on a pile of loose volcanic ash, the over one million people living on top of the pile are in danger. 'I'd hate to have to be in the government right now,' Bonis, who worked for the Guatemalan government's Instituto Geografico Nacional for 16 years, said. 'There is an excellent potential for this to happen again. It could happen almost anywhere in the city.'"

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Re:sinkhole

[Itninja]

The whoosh was regarding the 'no'.
And I never said it was common. I only said it was 'proper/correct'.
And the OED is not, even remotely, the 'best' dictionary in the world. Just the most respected. Like calling Oxford or Harvard the 'best' schools. I would recommend a unabridged dictionary, which the OED is not.
But I doubt you would specifically find 'sinked' in any of them, anymore than you would find an -ing version of every noun. Just the way it's said/written in proper English conversation or correspondence.

Re:sinkhole

[Itninja]

Actually the people in the Southern US do speak with a more proper form of English. And they were recognized as such in the antebellum days. Just because post Civil War pop-culture has consistently depicted Southerners are dopes and idiots does not make it so.