[Lexicog] When is an "in" word """in"""?

[Peter Kirk]

On 27/07/2004 21:03, Fritz Goerling wrote:

> Shore, why not? Maybe "manguage" will make it into the dictionary.
> But then someone else comes along and uses the word in the sense
> of "human language." As a protest sooner or later others will insist on
> "humanguage" or "peopleguage." Imagine the ramifications!


No, "ramifications" is not allowed, that has to be "sheepifications". ;-)

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Peter Kirk
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