Re: Small Derivational Idea

In a "Linguistics for non-linguists" course that I long ago had the misfortune to
be assigned to teach, a student advanced that very same argument, with
apparently support from various dictionaries. I had to change his grade,
grrrrr.

--- On Wed, 2/25/09, Michael Poxon <mike@...> wrote:
> I'd always taken cran- to be simply a variant of
> "crane", which you can find in placenames such as
> "Cranfield", "Cranford" and others, so
> "Cranberry" is a berry that cranes like to eat.