[Ads-l] Heard on Dr. Phil: "I'm not going to let you. . .

[Mark Mandel]

Yes, surely *back-formed*.

Mark
*aka Dr. Whom: Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and
Philological Busybody*


On Apr 25, 2017 3:34 AM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> _character-assassinate_ me, anymore!"
>
> A back-formation from "character-assassination"?
>
>

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