Re: A Little Linguistic Playground

From: Terry Carroll <carroll[_at_]tjc.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:25:36 -0800 (PST)

On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Edward Barrow <edward[_at_]plato32.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> (I dislike "decopyright" because, besides being ugly, it implies a verb
> "to copyright")

Do you also dislike the word "decapitate" for analogous reasons?

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