"stifled" 'stilted' and the reverse
Arnold M. Zwicky
zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Sat May 24 21:58:34 UTC 2008
On May 24, 2008, at 11:58 AM, Alison Murie wrote:
> on 5/24/08 12:35 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky at zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
> wrote:
>
>> ... in which "stifled" 'stilted' appears:
> A number of these examples suggest to me that "stunted" was the
> target word
> that was being missed.
good idea.
arnold
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