"drug" and irregulation

Victor Steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Sat Nov 13 19:12:38 UTC 2010


[I know Ron is going to hunt me down for this]

Perhaps the word you're looking for is "constipation".

     VS-)

On 11/13/2010 10:27 AM, Neal Whitman wrote:
> To my way of thinking...
>
> ADJ:  regular / irregular
> ADJ attenuative: regularish /irregularish
> VB "make s.t. ADJ": regularize / irregularize
> VB: regulate / ??irregulate
> N "act of V-ing": regulation / ??irregulation
>
> Neal

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