No bare root vegetables
    Arnold M. Zwicky 
    zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
       
    Sat Dec 18 19:39:38 UTC 2004
    
    
  
On Dec 17, 2004, at 12:24 PM, Ed Keer wrote:
> On my lunch walk today I passed a restaurant
> advertising "prefixed menu." I don't know what they
> have against bare roots.
cute.  this takes the fairly common "prefix menu" one step further, by
"restoring" the past participle suffix.
it doesn't have to be prefixes, of course.  said the root: suffix the
little chicken to glom onto me.
arnold, still on the eggcorn beet
    
    
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