conduction

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:18 AM -0400 9/29/06, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>In a message dated 9/28/06 9:40:07 PM, dlbrgdhl at GMAIL.COM writes:
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>>  Just heard on WMRT-FM Marietta, Ohio: "under the conduction of Leonard
>>  Bernstein"!!!
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>And this is interesting because ...?
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"Conduction" in the sense of 'performance as/practice of a (musical)
conductor' is unattested in the OED or other dictionaries I just
checked.  Seems interesting to me (if only as an example of
semi-productive morphology).

LH

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