[Lexicog] Re: Frequency counts as a lexicographic measure

[Kenneth C. Hill]

Are you perhaps thinking of words like "revocate"? I heard Elizabeth Dole,
then Secretary of Transportation, use this term instead of the expected
"revoke" (with reference to driving licences), perhaps backformed from
"revocation". "Revocate" is listed in Merriam-Webster's Second Edition,
but with the notation that it is obsolete.

--Ken

--- Mike Maxwell <maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:

 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


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