"This is a matter of established idiomatic usage." "In standard English the normal injunction is Don’t pick the flowers, however that’s as much an accident of fate as because the word pick is more suitable in this context." "In India almost every other country has a different English dialect, but almost everybody has another second language, even if one speaks only English in class." "In college students, they write phrases which are perfectly reasonable, taken on their own merits, but which simply happen not to be the regular usage of English speakers. They sometimes come up with such new turns of phrase which are perfectly reasonable, taken on their own merits." "I can’t fault people for the sentence \"I have a doubt in this concept\"." "But in \"English English\", I think we’d probably say: \"I have misgivings about this idea\"." "All my doubts, and yet it is invariably plural." "I don’t understand Indian speakers of English as it is very prevalent in India. Also following an example makes it clear that we are being astounded by Indian speaking citizens using needful words in this context." "Both needful and necessary are normally adjectives, so they are both ‘ungrammatical’ anyway, from a purist’s point of view (not mine, I hasten to add! )." "Sir Walter Scott a couple of centuries ago using the needful, but putting it in quote marks to acknowledge the ungrammatical usage." "At that time neither form was particularly’standard’, and if anything THE NEEDFUL was actually the more common version." "The more grammatical did the business was already around back then, but has increasingly come to be seen as informal/slang in later years."

"This is a matter of established idiomatic usage." "In standard English the normal injunction is Don’t pick the flowers, however that’s as much an accident of fate as because the word pick is more suitable in this context." "In India almost every other country has a different English dialect, but almost everybody has another second language, even if one speaks only English in class." "In college students, they write phrases which are perfectly reasonable, taken on their own merits, but which simply happen not to be the regular usage of English speakers. They sometimes come up with such new turns of phrase which are perfectly reasonable, taken on their own merits." "I can’t fault people for the sentence \"I have a doubt in this concept\"." "But in \"English English\", I think we’d probably say: \"I have misgivings about this idea\"." "All my doubts, and yet it is invariably plural." "I don’t understand Indian speakers of English as it is very prevalent in India. Also following an example makes it clear that we are being astounded by Indian speaking citizens using needful words in this context." "Both needful and necessary are normally adjectives, so they are both ‘ungrammatical’ anyway, from a purist’s point of view (not mine, I hasten to add! )." "Sir Walter Scott a couple of centuries ago using the needful, but putting it in quote marks to acknowledge the ungrammatical usage." "At that time neither form was particularly’standard’, and if anything THE NEEDFUL was actually the more common version." "The more grammatical did the business was already around back then, but has increasingly come to be seen as informal/slang in later years."

I agree with your OP’s, but for the present it is not totally invalid to me.

Which will have 2350 hits for C21 in Google books, or 1180 for plain baffled why? The others are..about ;301..at ;143..by ;232..on ;8..over ;31 Per comments below, baffled by

accounts for a good proportion of all usages for baffle, but e.g. an alliteration of baffled by why. and other.. according to cathematics, are overused. The others are..about ;301..at ;250.

I am baffled by the etymology of baffle which seems to have originated meant disgrace, thence through mock to the modern sense of to bewilder, perplex. Why do we say Passive Pasticiple more than Passive English Plurals do, but I think we do use the passive plural more today – we say “He’s

baffled by it”, rather than “It baffles him”

"This is a matter of established idiomatic usage." "In standard English the normal injunction is Don’t pick the flowers, however that’s as much an accident of fate as because the word pick is more suitable in this context." "In India almost every other country has a different English dialect, but almost everybody has another second language, even if one speaks only English in class." "In college students, they write phrases which are perfectly reasonable, taken on their own merits, but which simply happen not to be the regular usage of English speakers. They sometimes come up with such new turns of phrase which are perfectly reasonable, taken on their own merits." "I can’t fault people for the sentence \"I have a doubt in this concept\"." "But in \"English English\", I think we’d probably say: \"I have misgivings about this idea\"." "All my doubts, and yet it is invariably plural." "I don’t understand Indian speakers of English as it is very prevalent in India. Also following an example makes it clear that we are being astounded by Indian speaking citizens using needful words in this context." "Both needful and necessary are normally adjectives, so they are both ‘ungrammatical’ anyway, from a purist’s point of view (not mine, I hasten to add! )." "Sir Walter Scott a couple of centuries ago using the needful, but putting it in quote marks to acknowledge the ungrammatical usage." "At that time neither form was particularly’standard’, and if anything THE NEEDFUL was actually the more common version." "The more grammatical did the business was already around back then, but has increasingly come to be seen as informal/slang in later years."

Im, for OP’s general definition of what he wants to convey, I like disparage – to regard or represent as being of little worth.

Becoming a British though, I’d probably revert to type for his particular example sentence. Why do we “no” think of the show “The London Eye”?

Should we use a two iss form? Is’s correct to have two by in writing?

As a man they are always going to sound ungainly. So anything like that sound ungainly. Is it good for boys to use one is twice?

What is the meaning of the term “Emergent”?

Should we use a two iss form? Is’s correct to have two by in writing?

As a man they are always going to sound ungainly. So anything like that sound ungainly. Is it good for boys to use one is twice?

What is the meaning of the term “Emergent”?

If OP is looking for an antonym that includes some negative connotations I suggest kudos.

In my experience kudos is often used somewhat disparagingly, with a suggestion that the reputation being refereed to may in fact be overrated or undeserved?

In light of subsequent clarification from OP, I suggest. hallmark. A phrase which can to be used in exactly the same way as some other offerings, and sometimes it’s used in reference to undesirable qualities, sounds good; “The hallmark of industriousness is associated with rich people”

sounds good to me.

If OP is looking for an antonym that includes some negative connotations I suggest kudos.

In my experience kudos is often used somewhat disparagingly, with a suggestion that the reputation being refereed to may in fact be overrated or undeserved?

In light of subsequent clarification from OP, I suggest. hallmark. A phrase which can to be used in exactly the same way as some other offerings, and sometimes it’s used in reference to undesirable qualities, sounds good; “The hallmark of industriousness is associated with rich people”

sounds good to me.

If OP is looking for an antonym that includes some negative connotations I suggest kudos.

In my experience kudos is often used somewhat disparagingly, with a suggestion that the reputation being refereed to may in fact be overrated or undeserved?

In light of subsequent clarification from OP, I suggest. hallmark. A phrase which can to be used in exactly the same way as some other offerings, and sometimes it’s used in reference to undesirable qualities, sounds good; “The hallmark of industriousness is associated with rich people”

sounds good to me.