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@OxfordWords A bit of kind advice, once you've said "Rabies can be a good thing" with the company account, it's time to check in with mgmt.

@JustinRyan @OxfordWords Rabies is a 'viral disease,' rabid is a 'strong conviction.' They share an etymological root; not a definition

@Bam_OGrady @OxfordWords Interesting. I never realised that a rabid dog actually suffers from its strength of conviction.

.@OxfordWords Please provide citations of "real-world" positive uses of 'rabid'. Show that they're representative, too, rather than outliers

.@OxfordWords The word you're thinking of as a "positive" is "avid". Sounds like, but isn't, "rabid", which is negative as hell.

@lousycanuck @OxfordWords Oh shit, dictionary burn! In this instance "burn" is a positive word.

@OxfordWords "rabid isn't always negative"...? it's a fatal disease. Please give an example of positive "rabid"

@stillwellgray @OxfordWords Rabid refers to rabies only when used to describe animals, not ideologies. #grammermatters

@Bam_OGrady @OxfordWords the disease is the root of the adjective #etymologymatters

@stillwellgray @OxfordWords And if we lived in the 1500's I'd agree, but today, rabid has separate definitions for animals and ideologies.

@Bam_OGrady @stillwellgray @OxfordWords Rabid still has a negative connotation. It's not used for the reasonably passionate.

@Bam_OGrady @stillwellgray @OxfordWords Besides, "rabid feminist" has been a sexist insult for decades, at least.

@Wordy_Librarian @stillwellgray @OxfordWords it's being sexist has to do with the motivation behind it's use. The word itself is nutral