to "course-correct"

[Douglas G. Wilson]

On 10/3/2011 7:00 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> I'd have thought it was "re-" + (sign) "up."
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Me too.

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> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Arnold Zwicky<zwicky at stanford.edu>  wrote:
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>> OED3 (March 2010) has "re-up" with "up" treated as a verb "with reference
>> to the holding up of one's right hand on taking the oath of enlistment into
>> the United States armed forces" ....
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This seems to me a very strange notion (which is not to say that it must
be false). Is there evidence?

-- Doug Wilson

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