[Lexicog] suffix -dom

[Benjamin Barrett]

Since Google gives 5370 hits for catdom and 34,500 for dogdom but  
catdom is evidently not in the dictionary, it seems that the  
lexicography is going to the dogs. BB

On Oct 14, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Fritz Goerling wrote:

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> That is a deep philosophical question, Ken.
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> What does it say about dogs and cats?
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> -- Fritz
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> There's dogdom but no catdom. What does this say about the semantics  
> of -dom?
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> --Ken
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> --- On Tue, 10/1.
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