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Old 04-13-2009, 12:28 PM   #177
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Most of the words like that were "invented" in Victorian times; very few are "genuine" Latin and Greek words.
Sure. But they're invented and combined using combinations of Latin and Greek root-words along with conventional modifiers. So they're straight-forward to understand as long as you know the roots. And in that sense they are "fusional."

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