"dudo", 1840, meaning ???

[Tom Zurinskas]

"Not very uncommon" - is that the same as "uncommon". but not "very" uncommon?

Tom Zurinskas, first Ct 20 yrs, then Tn 3, NJ 33, Fl 9.
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> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:33:36 +0000
> From: cdoyle at UGA.EDU
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> Then there is the not-very-uncommon "shortgevity." In most such constructions (but not necessarily in "slangevity"), the "g" /d3/ has migrated from the historical "long-" to the "-[a]evity" part. So we have a [pseudo]morpheme "-gevity."
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> --Charlie
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> From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Arnold Zwicky [zwicky at STANFORD.EDU]
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> On Jun 23, 2011, at 10:53 AM, Laurence Horn wrote, about "duds":
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> > --a particularly impressive word, showing up in 15th and 16th c.
> > slang compendia and having remained as a slang word ever since.
> > Can't think of any rival to its status for slangevity.
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> noted with pleasure on my blog, here:
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> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/slangevity/
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