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[Victor Steinbok]

Sorry, I was not being clear--I meant the actOR not the actION. So I
have no difficulty with "Tealusional" or "Tealusion". But something
tells me that you already knew that.

As for "Teatard", yes, it is one that I am familiar with, but it escaped
my attention in the morass of all the other combinations. It certainly
belongs on the list.

I also struggled a bit with how "Tearannical" or even "Tearanny" might
produce something equivalent to a "Tyrant". Unfortunately, the phonetics
doesn't work out as nicely as in other cases. Since I know very little
phonetics or phonology, I am not even going to try.

     VS-)

On 11/9/2010 5:27 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> At 11/9/2010 04:46 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>> Tealusional--hard to make a noun out of this one.
> Why?  "Tealusion" -- rhymes and resonates with "delusion" -- seems quite fine.
>
> "Tea" as in the two-syllable "teatard", not to be pronounced like "leotard".
>
> Joel

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