reget--a real word?

[Bill Palmer]

Definitely "reget"...in the sense of getting the equipment once again.

Bill P
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> At 8/25/2010 08:08 PM, Bill Palmer wrote:
>>On a related note, a major general commanding a logistics operation being
>>interviewed on the local ABC affiliate today made mention of military
>>equipment being shipped out of Iraq, and units will later "reget" it.
>
> I read this initially as "regret", and didn't look again until I had
> read the following sentence.  Was it really "reget", or an elision of
> the second "r"?
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>>As with the previously noted items, there's prob'ly a limit on the number
>>of
>>"re_" verbs that can have their own citation.
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> Joel
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