And don't forget ...

W Brewer brewerwa at GMAIL.COM
Thu Sep 18 16:48:29 UTC 2014


What about the <-aire> suffix?  I picture a <genocidaire> as a sort of
<legionnaire of genocide>, strongly associated with Francophone Rwanda.
(ADS-L, of course, scrambles accent aigu on the <gen-> of the French
source.)

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