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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: concertising
- Message-ID: <12443@spark.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 11:13:34 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.4867.9479@dosgate>
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- Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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- In article <1993Jan19.4867.9479@dosgate> "peter curran" <peter.curran@canrem.com> writes:
- >Maybe "concertise" came from Russian? Although in that case
- >it must have lost a few prefizes along the way. (:-))
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- By no means. I have never come across a Russian counterpart of "concertise",
- but if one existed, it would have no prefizes, just a different suffiz.
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