[Ads-l] Nor is "co-signer. "Co-Sign" Not in OED

Joel Berson berson at ATT.NET
Mon Jun 22 19:46:03 UTC 2015


But not "co-signer".  I think some catching up from the 19th century is needed. 
Joel
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But _co-signatory_ is in.  Interesting!

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I see that the verb "co-sign" is not in OED, unless I'm missing it somewher=
e.  There are at least about 600,000 Google hits for it.

Fred Shapiro

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