participial form of "copyright"

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> At least twice just now, Stephen Colbert inflected the verb "copyright" as "copywritten" (sp?).
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Perhaps that was just his little joke. Having grown up with the simple
"copyright [Name] & Co., Inc.," I have a problem even with
"copyrighted," even though this form is two days older than water.

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-Wilson
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