[Ads-l] "... she _broadcasted_ herself ..."

Benjamin Barrett gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM
Tue Oct 13 23:19:03 UTC 2015


In that case, I recommend not reading Pinker’s “Language Instinct” as he discusses this word. BB

> Il giorno 13 ott 2015, alle ore 15:53, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> 
> In today's NYT Online.
> 
> This is only the second time that I've ever seen the -ed version in my life
> and, with any luck, I won't live long enough to see it, again. It gets
> 6,700,000 raw hits vs, 276,000,000 for the standard form.
> 
> _broadcasted_ can be Googled back to 1793, but I don't care. :-(
> 

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