back-formed verb "informate"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jan 24 04:19:11 UTC 2010


The usage mavens will, no doubt, conversate about _informate_.

-Wilson

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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