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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Non-words we already know the meanings of
Message-ID: <141@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 01:23:15 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  9 01:23:15 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Sep-85 07:00:40 EDT
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WARNING: If you are not *fluent* in English this will all be dreadfully
          cryptic!

>> nonchalant --gives-- chalant

> innocent --originally negative of-- nocent

     Then  there  are  the other back-formations.   For  example, "pea".
Originally, I understand, there was a word "pease" which meant the small
round green (collective,  ie, plural)  vegetable we all know.  The e got
dropped and on the (false) assuption the result was a plural we now have
"pea"  in the language.  There's a similar  example,  some legal  term I
can't recall at the moment.

     How about "excest" or "outcest", referring  to sex with someone not
related to you?  (for the unimaginitive: derived from "incest")

     I recall reading of a book titled "Ounce, Dice, Trice" once.

     Presumably "digineous [to]" means "not native [to]"?

     And, of  course, if you want someone to stay  away  from your party
you send them an exvitation.
-- 
					der Mouse

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