Pardon my ignorance!

[Tom Priestly]

Re: Nabokov and "otsebyatina":

Dennis Akhapkine, Dean Worth and Christina Sperrle have swiftly put me
straight. "Otsebyatina" is in Ushakov and even in Dal': "V.I.Dal' otmechaet
slovo _otseb'atina_ kak pridumannoe K. Brullovym."

So I can delete my reference to Nabokov as the coiner of the word - which
is what I once read somewhere. Of course, he is probably deserving of
credit for encouraging the use of the word, which is a very handy one.

My thanks to my educators!
Tom Priestly

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*       University of Alberta
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