Re: Need some help with terms: was "rhotic miscellany"

Quoting John Cowan <jcowan@...>:
> Sally Caves scripsit:
> > especially among my dissertationers,
>
> What a great word!  Apparently it's a coinage: searching Google shows no
> hits for "dissertationer" except in Swedish text (pl. of "dissertation",
> I suppose).
I've heard <dissertators> in common (albeit obviously restricted)
use.

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