[Lexicog] Re: Frequency counts as a lexicographic measure

[Mike Maxwell]

Rudolph C Troike wrote:
> I was startled the other evening in listening to a prominent physician in
> the public health area who was being interviewed on TV, use the word
> "immersement" rather than the expected "immersion".

Years ago, I had a Japanese calendar with beautiful photographs
documenting the "Action-packed descension of Mount Everest."  I always
thought this was an example of bad translation.  I still do, I guess,
but it turns out the word is in Webster's 1828 dictionary (or at least
it is on a web version of Webster--appropriate, no?):

http://65.66.134.201/cgi-bin/webster/webster.exe?search_for_texts_web1828=descension

The second (astronomical) definition reminds me that I have long known
of the astronomical term "right ascension", to which "right descension"
is closely related.  Strange that I never thought of that...

I wonder how many doublets like this (immersion/immersement, descent/
descension) there are in English.  There's one quite common one that I
can't recall now, which always annoys me.  Doubtless someone on this
list will come up with it.
--
	Mike Maxwell
	Linguistic Data Consortium
	maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu

	"When I get a little money I buy books;
           and if any is left I buy food and clothes."
	--Erasmus


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