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<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I stand corrected and, as a dictionary compiler, I should have known better. When something is not in "the dictionary" it does not mean it isn't used. But with the number of hits for catdom being only 15.6% of those for dogdom, the question of dogs vs. cats remains.<br><br>--Ken<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 10/14/08, Benjamin Barrett <i><gogaku@ix.netcom.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Benjamin Barrett <gogaku@ix.netcom.com><br>Subject: Re: [Lexicog] suffix -dom<br>To: lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com<br>Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 1:16 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1437338375">
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<p>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</p><div><br><div><div>On Oct 14, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Fritz Goerling wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px;"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;"><div id="ygrp-msg"><div id="ygrp-text" style="font-family: Georgia;"><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">That is a deep philosophical question,
Ken.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">What does it say about dogs and cats?</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">-- Fritz</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;"><div id="ygrp-msg"><div id="ygrp-text" style="font-family: Georgia;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" style="font-size: inherit;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><p
class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There's dogdom but no catdom. What does this say about the semantics of -dom?<br><br>--Ken<br><br>--- On<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tue, 10/1<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 79, 174); font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">.</span></span></b></span></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><img src="http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=11682781/grpspId=1709195911/msgId=4584/stime=1224011543/nc1=3848627/nc2=5028924/nc3=5170420" width="1" height="1"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><span style="color: white;"></span></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div>
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