WOTY Candidate: Tase

[Mark Mandel]

I thought an explanation would be redundundant and repetitively repetitious,
but I don't see any definitions of "autologous" in the sense I had in mind:
self-descriptive.

m a m

On Dec 24, 2007 10:37 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why?
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> -Wilson
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> On Dec 24, 2007 5:26 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I suggest we abbreviate the noun "back-formation" to the autologous
> > "back-form".
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> > On Dec 23, 2007 4:14 PM, Baker, John <JMB at stradley.com> wrote:
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> > >        Tase is a back-formation from taser.
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