[Ads-l] Nor is "co-signer. "Co-Sign" Not in OED
Joel Berson
berson at ATT.NET
Mon Jun 22 19:46:03 UTC 2015
But not "co-signer". I think some catching up from the 19th century is needed.
Joel
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But _co-signatory_ is in. Interesting!
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I see that the verb "co-sign" is not in OED, unless I'm missing it somewher=
e. There are at least about 600,000 Google hits for it.
Fred Shapiro
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