Sheidlower in NY Times

[Thomas Paikeday]

How about "indubitable," especially for the sound of it that makes
sense? I was told by the late Prof. Donald B. Sands (circa 1963, in an
Old English course!) that's what the pigeons are saying. If linguistic
change applies here, I wonder what the pigeons are saying 37 years
later.
T.M.P.

THOMAS M. PAIKEDAY, lexicographer since 1964
Latest work: "The User's(tm) Webster," Lexicography, Inc., 2000
ISBN 0-920865-03-8 / utpbooks at utpress.utoronto.ca
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Fred Shapiro wrote:
>
>> Personally, "disambiguate" is my second favorite word -- I just like the
> sound of it.  (My first favorite is "antepenultimate").
>
> Fred Shapiro
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