Won't fixing the problem

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Aug 26, 2007, at 9:33 AM, Karl Hagen wrote:

> Among some communities of software developers "won't fix" appears to
> have become a dephrasal compound verb.

presumably the intermediate stage is the quoted expression "won't fix".

a similar nominal example is "don't care".  you can google up some
plural "don't(-)cares".

arnold

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