Why "prophesize" ?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/24/2007 08:22 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>3.  in addition, -ize is a very productive suffix; if you collect
>verbs in -ize assiduously, you can find a new one almost every day:

No pun intended by "productive", I assume.  By the number of his
examples, Arnold has apparently assiduized.

Joel

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