"Prophesize" Not in the Dictionaries

[Jonathan Lighter]

Q.  Can it be that "prophesy" and "prophesize / prophecize" are synonyms as close as "gorse" and "furze"?

A.  Perhaps - but "gorse" and "furze" remain more interesting because they derive from entirely different etyma.

JL

Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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Jesse Sheidlower has pointed out that "prophecize" is in OED (I hadn't
looked under that spelling). Sorry for the error. Now I've joined David
Shulman, who frequently proclaimed that he had gotten "snowman" into the
dictionaries despite the fact that it had long been in many dictionaries.

Fred Shapiro


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