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Old 04-12-2009, 06:50 PM   #170
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Originally Posted by Xenophon View Post
In English, many or most of the words we grabbed from scholarly Latin and Greek remain fusional. Antidisestablishmentarianism for one notorious example. These would be the ologies and isms and so on.

English -- we've got it all! (sort of ) And we verb our nouns, too!

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"I'm your noun, verbing your noun"
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