| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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Some words like "disappear" have the prefix "dis" to mean the opposite. however, how does one explain the following words? Could one have said at one time, "gosh, I feel gruntled today" ? disabuse disappoint disgruntled disgust Jerry
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| 780.1 | grunt work | LESCOM::KALLIS | Pumpkins -- Nature's greatest gift. | Mon Feb 26 1990 15:47 | 8 |
Re .0 (Jerry):
>however, how does one explain the following words? Could one have said at
>one time, "gosh, I feel gruntled today" ?
I've said that more than once myself.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 780.2 | SHALOT::ANDERSON | Give me a U, give me a T | Mon Feb 26 1990 16:54 | 13 | |
All these words were created in the same way -- i.e., "dis-" (meaning "opposite of") plus other word. This is obvious for some -- disappear, disintegrate, disagree, etc. For others, though, you have to look at the word's etymology to see this. Some example: o disgust -- fr. goust (taste) Middle French o dishabille -- fr. habille (to dress) French o discharge -- fr. carricare (to load) Latin o disheveled -- fr. chevel (hair) Middle French o dismiss -- fr mittere (to send) Latin -- Cliff | |||||
| 780.3 | I disgavel you, you cad! | AYOV27::ISMITH | Mr The Fish? | Thu Apr 05 1990 14:54 | 5 |
Not really on the subject (what's new around here? 8^) but I read
the definition of 'disgavel' last night. To disgavel is 'To remove
from the tenure of gavelhood'. What a wonderful definition.
Ian.
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