New Word?

[Paul Ivsin]

>>From "-ize, -ise in verbs" in The New Fowler's Modern English Usage
...   ...
Objections to the word finalize, and to such words as permanentize (first
recorded in 1961 and judged by myself in Oxford English Dictionary
Supplement, 1982, to be 'a word of little value and rarely found in serious
writing') and prioritize (first recorded in 1973 and described by me in 1982
as 'a word that at present sits uneasily in the language') are to be set
against the long history and distinctive usefulness of such formations in
English.
...   ...

(http://www.xrefer.com/entry/594436)

So, probably at least 40 years old.  I don't have the 1961 cite, though.

Paul

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Paul Ivsin
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From: "Bob Haas" <highbob at MINDSPRING.COM>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 7:42 AM
Subject: New Word?


Did anyone else hear the word "permanentized" yesterday on NPR?  I believe
that it was spoken by Kay Bailey Hutchinson.  It was a new one for me.

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Bob Haas
Department of English
High Point University

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