origin and definition of 'analyte'

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:08 PM -0400 8/14/02, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 02:26:09PM -0400, Joanne M. Despres wrote:
>>  Well, Jim, maybe the chemists chose this word for the sake of
>>  clarity and intelligibility, so that they wouldn't end up with a passel
>>  of analysands.  Remember, Prozac hadn't been invented yet.
>
>I was sort of rooting for "analysee", myself.
>
Ah, but then you begin to encroach on that (admittedly squishy)
[+animate] feature of -ee nominals...

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