New "word"?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Oct 4 14:40:31 UTC 2004


At 10:35 AM -0400 10/4/04, Wilson Gray wrote:
>During one of yesterday's football games, I heard a commentator use
>"critere" as the singular of "criteria." I guess he didn't grow up in
>St. Louis, where "Criterion" is the name of a still-standing but
>now-defunct movie theater.
>
>-Wilson Gray

The teacher of a philosophy seminar I'm sitting in on keeps referring
to what he calls an "indicee" (singular of "indices").

larry



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