The suffix -hood
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 8, 2000, 5:52 |
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At 7:08 pm -0700 6/10/00, DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:
>From: "Amanda Babcock"
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>> This is obviously not an exhaustive list. Can anybody come up with more
>> counterexamples beyond "falsehood"?
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>AARGH!!! "hardihood".
Yep - "hardihood" = boldness, audacity; whereas "hardiness" = 'the ability
to endure cold, exposure. fatigue etc.
Interesting.
Then there's "likelihood" = probability. It's a common enough word and
"likely" (= possible) is applied to situations, not people.
Ray.
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