Re: nascient
Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:12:05 -0500 (EST)
Scottie wrote:
>
> Nascient, Matt? Nascient?
....And although I had a queasy feeling about it when it first appeared, I
assumed that Matt must be using that quaint spelling system called
"American" English. But Scottie's query sent me to my Webster's, where I
learned that Mighty Matt was guilty of adding an extraneous eye--unless he
was cleverly creating a new word that means "knowing how to say NO", or
literally NAY SCIENT....
-Paul