Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Apr 2001 23:03:50 -0700 | From | Jonathan Lundell <> | Subject | Re: deregister? |
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At 10:39 PM -0700 2001-04-29, Steve VanDevender wrote: >Jonathan Lundell writes: > > At 10:03 PM -0400 2001-04-29, Andres Salomon wrote: > > >Americans can spell? Since when? > >
Shouldn't that be 'Sinse when'?
> > OED 2nd Ed: > > > > deregister. v. trans. To remove from a register. Hence > > deregistration. (first citation 1925) > > > > unregistered. ppl. a. Not entered in a register; unrecorded. (first > > citation 1604) > > > > The OED has no entry for "unregister". > >That's proving that the British can spell (it's the Oxford English >Dictionary, after all),
Hmm. Just a *somewhat* circular argument!
>and that Andreas Salomon doesn't know standard >English verb morphology. I rather suspect that there are quite a few >verbs prefixed with "de-" in common use that aren't in dictionaries, >since it's well understood how "de-" changes the meaning of a verb.
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