Dubious Word of the Day
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The ‘bated suffix can be added to many words depending on the context of how or where one ‘bated.
Education is extremely important.
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The ‘bated suffix can be added to many words depending on the context of how or where one ‘bated.
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The ‘bated suffix can be added to many words depending on the context of how or where one ‘bated.
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@catseye3 said in Dubious Word of the Day:
Is there such a word as 'combated'?
"Combat" is primarily a verb. Therefore it has past tenses. So yes, "combated" is a word.
Please love yourself.
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@horace said in Dubious Word of the Day:
The ‘bated suffix can be added to many words depending on the context of how or where one ‘bated.
Horace is a mastur of words.
@mik said in Dubious Word of the Day:
@horace said in Dubious Word of the Day:
The ‘bated suffix can be added to many words depending on the context of how or where one ‘bated.
Horace is a mastur of words.
Even celibated in his own circle
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@catseye3 said in Dubious Word of the Day:
Is there such a word as 'combated'?
"Combat" is primarily a verb. Therefore it has past tenses. So yes, "combated" is a word.
@aqua-letifer I wonder, is it a legitimate verb or was it popularly turned into a verb from being solely a noun?
In one of the Nero Wolfe books, his factotum Archie related how Wolfe so profoundly disapproved of using 'contact' as a verb that any client who committed that sin got $2,000 added to his bill.
That's how combatted strikes me -- okay as a noun and as a verb, but as a past tense verb it just looks weird.
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@aqua-letifer I wonder, is it a legitimate verb or was it popularly turned into a verb from being solely a noun?
In one of the Nero Wolfe books, his factotum Archie related how Wolfe so profoundly disapproved of using 'contact' as a verb that any client who committed that sin got $2,000 added to his bill.
That's how combatted strikes me -- okay as a noun and as a verb, but as a past tense verb it just looks weird.
@catseye3 said in Dubious Word of the Day:
@aqua-letifer I wonder, is it a legitimate verb or was it popularly turned into a verb from being solely a noun?
In one of the Nero Wolfe books, his factotum Archie related how Wolfe so profoundly disapproved of using 'contact' as a verb that any client who committed that sin got $2,000 added to his bill.
That's how combatted strikes me -- okay as a noun and as a verb, but as a past tense verb it just looks weird.
The French, Old French, and Latin roots were all verbs. I think it looks weird because today it's a rarer usage.
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