"bona fide" as past part.

[Michael Covarrubias]

Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>
> in Brians:
>
> Bona fide is a Latin phrase meaning “in good faith,” most often used
> to mean “genuine” today. It is often misspelled as if it were the past
> tense of an imaginary verb: “bonafy.”
>    http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/bonafied.html
>
> "bonafied" is mentioned on Language Log as well:
>
> AZ, 8/24/04: On the eggcorn beet:
>   http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001383.html
>
> but maintaining the spelling while treating it as a verb form is new
> to me.
>
> arnold
>
>
ahh -- the oversight of previous mention and the spelling are mine. it
was spoken by the caller so i just used the spelling i know.
m

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