"incredubility" -- an aggcorn, or a blend, or a mistyping?

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Sat Oct 17 21:20:24 UTC 2009


I just realized -- Perhaps more simply a mistyping of "incredibility"
-- although strictly speaking that word doesn't seem to convey quite
the desired sense.

Joel

At 10/17/2009 05:14 PM, you wrote:
>On an email list, a book indexer and I think former copy editor has written:
>
>As disarming as the host's incredubility about indexers being
>"separate people," it sure set up Tina Brown's response.  [For the
>wondering, a reference to a recent NPR program about ebooks.]
>
>I suppose "incredulity" mixed up with "dubiety".
>
>Joel
>
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