cath v.
Charles C Doyle
cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Tue Oct 30 12:08:52 UTC 2012
On TV last night I beheld an ad for catheters. Written on the screen: "End painful cathing."
The form "cathing" garners some 343,000 raw Google hits. Of course, "cath" itself, as a verb, is practically unsearchable.
Wouldn't a more plausible back-formation be "cathet"?
--Charlie
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