Pardon my ignorance!
Tom Priestly
tom.priestly at UALBERTA.CA
Wed Apr 18 19:38:28 UTC 2001
Re: Nabokov and "otsebyatina":
Dennis Akhapkine, Dean Worth and Christina Sperrle have swiftly put me
straight. "Otsebyatina" is in Ushakov and even in Dal': "V.I.Dal' otmechaet
slovo _otseb'atina_ kak pridumannoe K. Brullovym."
So I can delete my reference to Nabokov as the coiner of the word - which
is what I once read somewhere. Of course, he is probably deserving of
credit for encouraging the use of the word, which is a very handy one.
My thanks to my educators!
Tom Priestly
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