Another blend: "Pree-zackly"; (earlier message was Re: Hardly ... not)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
gcohen at MST.EDU
Thu Mar 12 21:18:49 UTC 2009
For those interested in blends, there's "pree-zackly" below. (from "precisely" + "exactly") --- not standard English, but a blend nevertheless (Saussure would say it's in "parole").
Gerald Cohen
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Original message from: Mark Mandel, Thu 3/12/2009 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: Hardly ... not
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Pree-zackly (Pogo, IIRC). Top-posting often assumes that the reader
has the context in mind, <snip>
mam
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