Slightly off topic, but since there are linguists here I thought I'd ask. Does the word winningest seem wrong to other people? It's such a foreign word to me that feels absolutely wrong. I only really hear it when watching US sports.
I'm from Australia, where we follow en-GB relatively closely for perspective.
It feels ugly to me, but there doesn't seem to be a concise alternative.
It's usually used to refer to a person's record of wins, as in the coach who has lead a team to more wins than any other coach, at which point they are the winningest.
He's the...
winningest coach
most successful coach when measured by how many wins
“Most winning” would be the correct alternative, with the same number of syllables although to me it does feel more concise. As an American, I also hate this made up word.
pacaro|5 years ago
It's usually used to refer to a person's record of wins, as in the coach who has lead a team to more wins than any other coach, at which point they are the winningest.
He's the...
winningest coach
most successful coach when measured by how many wins
coach with the best win-loss ratio
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
cik2e|5 years ago
PhineasRex|5 years ago
Lammy|5 years ago
Then the runner-up is the penultimate.