Additional as verb

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Jun 11 13:53:35 UTC 2007


At 8:44 AM +0100 6/11/07, neil wrote:
>Intro to 'Movie Bank Quotes' [ http://www.moviequotes.com/repository.cgi ]
>reads thus:
>
>MovieQuotes runs by contribution by its talented members. We would like to
>thank all members for submitting quotes to make this site possible. If you
>would like to additional quotes, please visit the Submit Quote [p]age. You
>can also find movie memorabilia when you're done quoting.
>
>--Neil Crawford
>
I'd guess a mere typo, coalescing the redundant-appearing "add
additional quotes" into "additional quotes".  I could be wrong,
though.  Or to anticipate Jerry, maybe a quasi-blend of "if you would
like to add quotes" and "if you would like additional quotes".
Either way, the writer wouldn't really be using "additional" as a
true god-fearing verb.

LH

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