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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
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Subject: Re: Re: On "orphaned" words.
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Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 03:05:27 EST
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> In article <7169@watdaisy.UUCP> Gregory Rawlins writes:
> >	During one of these marathon sessions the word "to" came up
> >and we noticed that the word "fro" in the phrase "to and fro" has
> >no independent meaning in English. i.e. fro has no meaning
> >outside of the phrase to and fro.

	On a similar vein, consider the antonym of towards, it is "away from."
Some time ago, a few of us wanted to start a campaign to invent the word
"frowards." (Sounds better than fromwards - I didn't even think of fro) but
it looked too much like forwards mispelled, and none of us had the motivation.

	One other category of pseudo-orphans, words that are negated, but
whose un-negated form is non-sensical (I had a slew of these but the only one
I can think of right now is "alienable right"/opp. of inalienable)

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				Craig Werner
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