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Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 23:03:50 -0700
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From: Jonathan Lundell <jlundell@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: deregister?
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At 10:39 PM -0700 2001-04-29, Steve VanDevender wrote:
>Jonathan Lundell writes:
>  > At 10:03 PM -0400 2001-04-29, Andres Salomon wrote:
>  > >Americans can spell?  Since when?
>  >

Shouldn't that be 'Sinse when'?

>  > OED 2nd Ed:
>  >
>  > deregister. v. trans. To remove from a register. Hence
>  > deregistration. (first citation 1925)
>  >
>  > unregistered. ppl. a. Not entered in a register; unrecorded. (first
>  > citation 1604)
>  >
>  > The OED has no entry for "unregister".
>
>That's proving that the British can spell (it's the Oxford English
>Dictionary, after all),

Hmm. Just a *somewhat* circular argument!

>and that Andreas Salomon doesn't know standard
>English verb morphology.  I rather suspect that there are quite a few
>verbs prefixed with "de-" in common use that aren't in dictionaries,
>since it's well understood how "de-" changes the meaning of a verb.


-- 
/Jonathan Lundell.
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