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

[Jonathan Lighter]

I inadvertently deleted the first few posts, but HDAS includes "allegator"
(pun on "alligator") from the 19th C.

JL

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Margaret Winters <mewinters at wayne.edu>
wrote:

> Is that the same as boxed in?
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> "So true - I stand corrected.  Or - I appreciate the correct."
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> Or put another way, "I appreciate being corregated."
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> So true - I stand corrected.  Or - I appreciate the correct.
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> MARGARET E WINTERS
> Professor Emerita
> French and Linguistics
> Wayne State University
> Detroit, MI  48202
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> mewinters at wayne.edu
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> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Mark
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> andel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM>
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> Please! What a wonderful *back form*!
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> Mark
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> On Mar 2, 2017 11:05 AM, "Margaret Winters" wrote:
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> What a wonderful back formation!
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