[Ansteorra] Coronated

[C. L. Ward]

>...before he was coronated...

(Alert!  Technical writer/proofreader out of control...)

There is no such word as "coronated".  The Latin for "crown" is "corona",
from which we get the English word for the ceremony of endowing a king with
his crown, i.e., "coronation".

In English, when a king is invested with his crown, the verb is "to crown":

Present tense:
I crown the king.
You crown the king.
He crowns the king.
She crowns the king.
They crown the king.
We crown the king.

Past tense:
I crowned the king.
You crowned the king.
He crowns the king.
She crowns the king.
They crown the king.
We crown the king.

Etc.

So it would be "...before he was crowned..."

I keep seeing the mangled term "coronated" and it seems to me that it is
spreading, so I hope perhaps this small note on this topic may staunch the
wound on the language...

(OK, tech writer attack is ended, it's safe again!)

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