more morphological reshaping: longetivity
Alison Murie
sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM
Tue Sep 26 19:03:34 UTC 2006
>Also occasionally heard--sometimes with jocular intent--is "shortgevity,"
>(there are 270 Google hits), reanalyzing "longevity" to posit the root as
>"-gevity" rather than "-evity." (Zero Google hits for "shortgetivity";
>one for "shortgivity"!)
>
>--Charlie
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That last one suggests "giving short shrift" more than short-livedness!
AM
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