reputably = "reputedly"

[Wilson Gray]

I give, arnold. You're the best!

-Wilson

On 8/7/07, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On Aug 7, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > It strikes me as being a mispronunciation in BE. "Presumably" is not
> > in common use and probably is usually pronunced "prolly." For me,
> > anyway, "supposably" is easier to say than "supposedly," so I use
> > "supposably" when speaking to other MOT's.
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> 1.  "reputably" and "supposably" might be widespread in BE, but they
> are found with some frequency in other varieties of english as well.
>
> 2.  we've had discussions of the various cases of variation between "-
> edly" and "-ably" (including "presumedly" for "presumably", the
> opposite of "reputably" and "supposably") here before.  it seems
> pretty clear that these are morphological re-shapings, involving two
> word-formation patterns in competition, and not simply
> "mispronunciations" (or, for that matter, inadvertent blends).
>
> arnold
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