[Ads-l] "How would *you* _game-plan against_ France?"

[Neal Whitman]

Saving Arnold a few keystrokes, here is the link to many of his posts on this so-common-now-as-to-be-nearly-unremarkable compound, which he has even given an abbreviated name to (2pbfv’s, for 2-part backformed verbs): 
https://arnoldzwicky.org/linguistics-notes/2pbfvs/2pbfv-postings/
Grammarphobia fans will find many examples to add to their collections there.

Neal 

> On Jul 11, 2018, at 11:55 AM, Mailbox <mailbox at GRAMMARPHOBIA.COM> wrote:
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>> On  Jul 10, Jul 2018, at 13:28,  Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> Subject: "How would *you* _game-plan against_ France?"
>> 
>> American commentator at the World Cup
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>> -Wilson
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> A reader of our blog Grammarphobia.com emailed us about a few similar verbs seen in the wild: to care-give, to firework (apropos of July 4), and to free ship (as in "Have you free shipped yet?"). 
> 
> I often see (and hear) "dog walk," as in "a good place to dog walk."
> 
> Pat O'Conner
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