monodialectical

Donald M Lance lancedm at MISSOURI.EDU
Wed Feb 6 18:35:52 UTC 2002


Do you mean monodialectal?

Dialectics, as I understand the term, refers to opposing views, which
implies the existence of two of something, thus ruling out mono-.

Yes, yes, I know that 'dialectical' is often used for 'dialectal' by
educated people.

DMLance

on 2/6/02 10:35 AM, Pamela Roper Wagner at prwagn at TOAD.NET wrote:

> Where would you look for the first use of this term?
>
> Pamela Wagner
> Researcher, OED
>



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