today's verbing

Marc Velasco marcjvelasco at GMAIL.COM
Fri Nov 21 00:43:22 UTC 2008


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>   The early settlers extincted many varieties of birds.  'made many
> varietities of bird extinct'
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>    BUT The  early settlers extinguished many varieties of birds.
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Obviously, the birds were on fire.  And then they extincted them.

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