ingenuitous
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sat Oct 8 19:01:43 UTC 2011
My mistake.
They reran the segment, and the solutions he called for are "ingenuitive."
JL
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Not in OED.
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> A guy on CNN explains that we need more "ingenuitous" solutions.
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> GB has an 1887, cited as an ex. of bad English.
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> JL
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