illegitament

[Dennis R. Preston]

A linguistic explanation is available. See David Stamp's "Why some
people live in the Uninted States." Must be in OSU Working Papers
somewhere.

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>Cf. "indiscriminate / ~minite" (805,000) and "indiscriminant /
>~manent" (16,700) on Web alone.
>
>JL
>
>Thomas Paikeday <thomaspaikeday at SPRINT.CA> wrote:
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>Sender: American Dialect Society
>Poster: Thomas Paikeday
>Subject: Re: illegitament
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>I think "illegitament" does call for a linguistic explanation. Compare
>mischievious (5,300), pronounciation (231,000), and wierd (1,580,000) which
>are understandable.
>
>T. M. P.
>www.paikeday.net
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jonathan Lighter"
>To:
>Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 7:23 PM
>Subject: illegitament
>
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>>  Sender: American Dialect Society
>>  Poster: Jonathan Lighter
>>  Subject: illegitament
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>>  A Google search - don't ask why - turns up well over 600 exx. of
>>  "illegitament."
>>
>>  Other spellings are possible.
>>
>>  JL
>>
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Dennis R. Preston
University Distinguished Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages
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