[Ads-l] Heard: "allege" > _allegate_

[Laurence Horn]

In the words of the immortal Algonquin J. Calhoun,
“I resent the allegation, and I resent the allegator”.

LH

> On Mar 2, 2017, at 11:05 AM, Margaret Winters <mewinters at WAYNE.EDU> wrote:
> 
> What a wonderful back formation!
> 
> 
> ----------------------------
> MARGARET E WINTERS
> Professor Emerita
> French and Linguistics
> Wayne State University
> Detroit, MI  48202
> 
> mewinters at wayne.edu
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2017 10:18 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Heard: "allege" > _allegate_
> 
> Steve Wilkos Show:
> 
> Q. What other allegations were there?
> 
> A. Well, she also _allegated_ that I took our children out and buried them
> in a ditch,              then dug them up, again.
> 
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
> American Dialect Society<http://www.americandialect.org/>
> www.americandialect.org
> The American Dialect Society, founded in 1889, is dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other ...
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org