[lit-ideas] Dentify
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:27:13 EDT
R. Paul confesses, with sadness,
>I thought I made 'dentify' up.
>I hope JL will sent my post as a
>citation to the folks in charge of the OED.
Mmm. That would be easy enough. Mailto:oed3@xxxxxxxxxx Minor problem is, you
may realise, that R. Paul does not provide a _use_ -- just a definition.
Until the word is being _used_ (properly, in conjugated form) it does not seem
to count for lexicological matters to the OED3 folks.
(R. Paul had written,
>To dentify is to add teeth, or to enhance
>already existing teeth.)
It can be claimed that Geary's original post provides such conjugation:
"The opinion is generated under the new
campaign-finance law, which prohibits
ads that dentify a federal candidate
before a primary or general election."
-- after Littre.
Cheers,
JL
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