Re: USAGE: Circumfixes
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 11, 2004, 0:57 |
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In a message dated 5/10/2004 8:34:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
mark@POLYMATHIX.COM writes:
>The discontinuous version might be a recent innovation, I reckon, or it
>might have a limited distribution among sociolectal varieties. Or maybe I
>just don't get out enough.
The _Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang_ has a citation
from 1921, referring to this usage during World War One.
We had a thread on this infix earlier:
http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0312d&L=conlang&F=&S=&P=39
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Doug
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