"Degradated"???

[Mark Mandel]

"James A. Landau" <JJJRLandau at AOL.COM> writes:

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     [snip many interesting and useful observations]

Have you considered that not only do "degrade" and "degradation" have
different vowels in the first syllable but also that the former is iambic
and the latter trochaic?
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So do "condense" and "condensation" (thanks, Alice!). What of it?

                  Mark A. Mandel : Senior Linguist
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