WNI (word not in)

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:56 PM -0400 10/17/04, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>I don't suppose that a word that was in use in 1928 should be a good
>candidate for Word of the Year 2004?
>
>As DB well knows, the absence of a form from dictionares does not necessarily
>mean that it is not in use--not if the morphemes from which it is derived
>make its meaning transparent. Surely "favorability" fits that category?
>
I agree.  It's a lot like "unxeroxable" [1560 google hits]--or
"unxeroxability" [no hits, but available for "coinage" as
necessary]--which I like to use as an illustration of productive
morphology and well-formed but unlisted lexical items.

Larry