documentate!!

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Mar 28, 2005, at 9:23 AM, Roger Shuy wrote:

> ...I just got back the copy edited version of a book I'm writing in
> which the
> copyeditor decided that my use of "in a solicitation to murder case"
> should
> be changed into a verbal expression, "to solicitate a murder."
> Obviously I'm
> objecitating to this monstrous change. But maybe that's they way the
> -ate
> movement is going these days.

sometime you ate the bear, sometimes the bear ate you.

arnold