New coinage?

RonButters at AOL.COM RonButters at AOL.COM
Tue Aug 9 02:31:40 UTC 2005


Well, isn't it the case that compounding is by definition highly productive,
and in English the distinction between nouns and verbs is very flexible--so
that listing all actually occurring constructions that resemble "name-call" (v)
makes only a little more sense as listing all the relative clauses that occur?
I don't object to OED listing as many as possible, of course, but I are
antedatings of such forms in any way important or linguistically interesting?



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