"Prophesize" Not in the Dictionaries

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat Mar 26 19:45:59 UTC 2005


At 11:43 AM -0500 3/26/05, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>Maybe this is just an error for "prophesy"?
>
>I don't see the adjective "principle" in the dictionaries at a glance,
>although it is used freely by otherwise respectable writers. I don't see
>the popular word "wierd" (>1 million hits) either.
>
Not quite the same, since the former involves a morphological
variant, the latter two only orthographic ones.

Larry



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