WOTY Candidate: Tase

[Dennis R. Preston]

Old news. We have already back-formed a verb from back-formation.

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>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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>>  m a m
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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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