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It ill behooves us to be unfair to any segment of the population, and it is not only immoral but illegal to discriminate against people on virtually any basis.
Among speakers of English worldwide, either as a native or an acquired language, RP is the most highly regarded accent--indeed, some might well regard RP as standing for `Revealed Pronunciation'--so it behooves one to pay attention to Professor Honey's comments about it, favorable and adverse.
But it behooves both Schoenfeld and Culturebox, with the prestige and reach of magazines such as
Some of the smaller dictionaries, from the MW-III and the Random House Unabridged on down through the college and desk sizes, contain etymologies reflecting up-to-date scholarship but these works may not be particularly user-friendly: after all, surveys have shown that etymological information is that least frequently sought by dictionary users, so it ill behooves publishers to devote a great deal of expensive space to it.
It ill behooves me, excoriated recently as enamored of the “cheap larf,” to criticize Safire's arch puns, which permeate—“enliven” is probably the word his editor would use—his articles, but I find some kinds of humor unsuitable for reading, however they might evoke a chuckle when uttered viva voce . A handful of examples, from the book at hand: