[Lexicog] suffix -dom

[Fritz Goerling]

That's pretty weak evidence, Benjamin. Could this ultimately have to do with
the question of whether "Real men love cats" or "Real men love dogs" (both
kinds of T-shirts exist)? Maybe campaigning should start to determine the
winner in this most important question. 

FG

Only one Google hit for "cat-dogdom" and none for "dog-catdom." I think
"cat" pretty much has to come before "dog," probably due to phonetic
reasons. BB

 

On Oct 15, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Fritz Goerling wrote:





 

Ken,

 

They have to fight for dominance as real cats and dogs do. In some cases
they get along. Maybe that would give rise to a new coinage: dogcatdom.

Fritz

 


I stand corrected and, as a dictionary compiler, I should have known better.
When something is not in "the dictionary" it does not mean it isn't used.
But with the number of hits for catdom being only 15.6% of those for dogdom,
the question of dogs vs. cats remains.

--Ken

--- On Tue, 10/14/08, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:

From: Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: [Lexicog] suffix! -dom
To: lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 1:16 PM

Since Google gives 5370 hits for catdom and 34,500 for dogdom but catdom is
evidently not in the dictionary, it seems that the lexicography is going to
the dogs. BB

 

On Oct 14, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Fritz Goerling wrote:






 

That is a deep philosophical question, Ken.

Wh! at does it say about dogs and cats?

 

-- Fritz

 


There's dogdom but no catdom. What does this say about the semantics of
-dom?

--Ken

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