[Ads-l] incent

[Jonathan Lighter]

He was speaking, IIRC, either on Fox News or CNN - probably the former,
which I watched regularly in those long distant days.

JL

On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 8:38 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com
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> JL wrote:
> > I reported this some years back.
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> > How can I ever forget?
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> Right, linguistic trend spotter JL mentioned "to incent" in a mailing
> list message date January 25, 2006 (before my time):
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> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2006-January/056989.html
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> [Begin excerpt]
> How many are aware that English contains a verb "to incent," meaning
> "to provide with and incentive" ?  I sure didn't, at least not until
> Governor George Pataki (R. -N.Y.) promised a few minutes ago to
> "incent consumers" to switch to ethanol.
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> Garson
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